Attribution made in Robert Terrell Bledsoe, Dickens, Journalism, Music: Household Words and All the Year Round (London: Continuum, 2012), p. 124. Based in part on Joseph Pearce, Violins and Violin Makers: Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators to the Present Time, with Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin (London: Longman and Company, 1866).