Daar is baie outobiografiese inligting in die boeke van Nancy, Diana, Jessica en Deborah. Laasgenoemde vertel van haar ouma (haar pa se ma): "She kept a Berkshire pig instead of a dog ... which she took to church on a lead. No one thought it a bit odd – affection for animals was taken for granted" (p 6-7). Debo se pa was gestelt op stiptelikheid. Wanneer hy iemand verwag het, het hy sy horlosie dopgehou en om bv 11:55 gemompel: "In six minutes the damn feller will be late" (p 17). Haar ouers se smaak het verskil: "When buying something for her, he always said to the shop assistant, 'A lady will be in to change these next week.' And so she was" (p 16). Oor haar ma skryf Debo: "What none of us realized at the time was just how much she taught us by her own example – and I cannot imagine a better one" (p 26). Die aanpassing by nuwe uitvindings was vir haar nie altyd maklik nie: "I don't really like refrigerators; they make the food so cold" (p 34).
Oor Evelyn Waugh (SêNet, 17 en 18 deser) skryf Debo: "The phenomenal amount of drink that the writer downed made him tricky company ... When sober, Evelyn's charm was winning, but you had to catch him early in the evening" (p 123). "Evelyn Waugh was a difficult guest and when he drank too much he was impossible" (p 155).
Debo en haar man het sewe huise besit: "Chatsworth, Hardwick Hall, Bolton Hall, Lismore Castle, Compton Place, a London house and Edensor" (p 152). Hulle het elke Aprilmaand in die Lismore-kasteel in Ierland deurgebring. Daar het hulle Elizabeth Bowen (SêNet, 21.09.2011) leer ken: "We all fell for her big-boned charm and hesitant speech that came out with such good stuff" (p 181). By president Jack Kennedy se begrafnis in 1963 het hulle Bowen se minnaar "Ambassador Charles Ritchie with his talkative wife" teëgekom (p 347).
Agtien maande na haar man se dood het Debo in 2005 van Chatsworth na Edensor getrek. "I do not feel cut off from the past, the present or the future ... Great age is a question of luck not skill and yet you are congratulated or rewarded as if you had done something clever" (p 334). "Recently I gave a talk about my childhood and someone asked me, 'Your sisters are buried at Swinbrook, are you going to join them there?' She did not add the word 'soon' but that is what she meant" (p 235).
Johannes Comestor