Click the links below to see a page on each topic
- Swordlands – the remote house on Loch Morar where the story is set
- Bedford High School – where Dora went to school
- Boarding Out – Scottish practice of placing children in foster care, and the reason Jeanie is in the Highlands
- Morag – the Loch Morar monster
- Round Towers & Stained Glass – the church at Loch Morar has a round tower, more commonly seen in Ireland; and stained glass by John Duncan
- Hugh Cass’s family – Dora’s lost fiancé’s family
- Howard Greene CBE DSO MC RA – Dora’s brother
- Barton Family – Anglo-Irish revolutionary family, connected to Dora’s family
- Sir George Clark and family – founder of the Workman Clark shipyard in Belfast
- Matilda Knowles – renowned lichenologist. Dora stayed with her in Dublin
- Col Sam Haughton MP – Dora’s business partner in C&SS
- St Ultan’s Hospital – founded by Irish women doctors, friends of Dora
- Comptometers – mechanical abacuses that Dora used to set up in business
- Irish Hospitals Trust – the organisation behind the Irish sweepstake
- WPC – Women’s Provisional Club, of which Dora was a member
