Female authors of books on Freemasonry include Mrs. Blake with "The Realities of Freemasonry" in 1879; Edith Starr Miller (Lady Queenborough) with "Occult Theocrasy" in 1931; and Nesta H. Webster with "Secret Societies and Subversive Movements" in 1924.

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The first published book to include the word Freemason was "A Booke in English metre, of the great Merchant man called Dives Pragmaticus," published in 1563.

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The funeral dirge used in some rituals - "Solemn strikes the funeral chime" - was written by David Vinton (1774-1833), an early travelling Masonic lecturer in the United States. It first appeared in the "Masonick Minstrel" in 1816.

Today, only four of the eight stanzas, set to the music of "Pleyel's Hymn," are generally used. Ignaz Pleyal (1757-1831) was an Austrian composer of popular church music and piano manufacturer.

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In the six volume revised version of historical work History of Freemasonry Throughout the World (1883-1887), Robert Freke Gould (1836-1915) is lauded as the Thucydides of Masonic history. The work has remained a standard of Masonic history since publication. Initiated in Ramsgate in 1855, he was Master of the Inhabitants Lodge in Gibraltar in 1863.

Thucydides was a Greek historian who lived from ca. 460 - 400 BCE.

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