In ‘The Strickland Family’, Christine Fisher has followed the motto of Agnes And Elizabeth Strickland, basing her biographies on facts, not opinion.  The facts were obtained from painstaking searches through the various archives which hold family letters as well as through family writings and newspaper archives. Initially driven by curiosity about Agnes Strickland and the biographical tour de force which is the series ‘Lives of the Queens of England’, Christine Fisher came to realise that Agnes was far from being the only member of her family worth studying.  She also realised that the family displayed their literary skills as well as their personalities in their letters, and that the best way to honour the family was to make wide use of quotations when telling their life stories.