In an 1896 Journal article on tenor Italo Campanini, Cather quotes "that one unique book of hers."
In an 1895 Journal article, Cather writes: "It is the kind of book one might expect from the woman who paints her own portraits, models her own face and carries offerings of flowers to her sarcophagus out in Pere-Lachaise, where her divine form will one day slumber."