Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Louisa Martindale" in English language version.
And yet surely, so long as thousands of our women have been led through poverty, ignorance, or misfortune, to live a life of shame, the least we can do is to try to find out what lies at the root of this social evil, so that we may the better help to free women from the slavery it involves
[Louisa] sums up their relationship briefly but concisely: 'She was, I thought, very unusual looking and beautiful...I invited her to come with me for a fortnight, with the result that she stayed thirty-five years'Quoted from A Woman Surgeon, pg. 228, in Hamer pg. 142