One of my favorite newspaper clippings about the girls from St. Bride's is this 1988 Sunday Telegraph article. It contains so many tantalizing bits of truth and half-truth, least of which is a brief interview with Miss Langridge. In it she mentions her "friend" Miss Jenny Faulkener, who is presumably the the same girl as Jenny Falconer that has popped up in much of Aristasian history. I have gone back and forth, and back again, on whether I think that Jenny Faulkener was a distinct other person or Miss Langridge herself under a different name. I have revisited my stance and think that she was something of a shared persona that Miss Langridge and the elusive Miss Evans used. There are several stories told about Miss Faulkener that really do seem to be told as if they were a second person who attended school with Miss Langridge, the above, as well as the introduction to the Amelia Bingham book (which claims to have been written by Miss Martindale, but the tone of the introduction feels very much like a Miss Langridge story, and we simply know for a fact that Miss Martindale didn't meet this group until after the college years). We know that Miss Evans, under her Madrian name, and Miss Langridge lived together in oxford, 3rd party stories tell about visiting them, and the neighbors of St. Bride's seemed to have met her. Now, there are many stories, especially in the Romantia era, that are written by Miss Faulkener, and I can easily believe they were written by Miss Langridge, as she was an absolutely prolific writer. But I really do think (for the moment at least) whenever a story is told about Miss Faulkener, perhaps they are stories about Miss Evans. The one wrench thrown into these cogs is that Sophia herself, the maid who brought Miss Martindale to the courts for bodily harm, as well as Madria Olga, have both referred to Miss Langridge as "Jennifer", but perhaps that was simply because it was a shared name.
