Mary Anne James

From 'The James, Pyne, Dixon Family Book' - the Reminiscences of Edith Elizabeth Chaplin, 1913:

... the Aunt Maryanne of my childhood and the Aunt James of the next generation, never married, and after her Mother's death lived with one or other of her two sisters. I shared her room for many years of my girlhood, when I heard endless stories of the people she knew and had known. She was the only one of our Grandfather's children who remembered the Great Aunt and Uncle Winpenny, and from her comes the story of Aunt Bessy's remark when taken as a child to dine with them. At the end of the meal, not being amused with the company, she turned to her parents with the observation: 'Had our dinner; let's go', and much offended her elderly relations, with whom Aunt Maryanne remained the favourite.

Aunt Maryanne was the beauty of the family in the eyes of her parents, who admired her dazzling pink and white complexion and chestnut red hair, an opinion confirmed by my Mother-in-law, Mrs. Chaplin, who shared their taste. But Aunt Bessy's Byronic type of beauty, ivory complexion and raven black hair and a fine figure, was more consonant to the general taste of that day, and my Mother has told me how greatly she was admired.