Ⓔ  illustration] “The charming actress Annie Russell appears in the pages as Sandy, the heroine,” Beard recalled in his autobiography (Hardly a Man, p. 337). A friend of Beard’s, Russell was particularly noted for her ingénue roles. (In a fragment of a letter of unknown date to an unknown correspondent, Beard says that Russell also served as his “inspiration” for Guenever [photocopy in ]; elsewhere, however, he says a professional model posed for the queen’s pictures.)