Website/Catalog  (2018)  Includes photo(s).
 
(Ausbottle)  Cordelia
This is one of a group of English Roses that is closely related to the old Alba Roses, all of which have a pleasing delicacy and elegance.  It bears charming, semi-double, silky petalled flowers that are a delightful shade of the purest rose pink, paling slightly with age.  They are borne in large sprays - each bloom paling individually, to provide a pleasing, mixed effect in each cluster.  The opening buds have attractively large, elongated sepals.  If the flowers are not dead-headed there will be a crop of hips later in the season. [...]
Named after the King’s daughter in Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Website/Catalog  (2002)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Cordelia (AUSbottle) English Rose. David Austin 2000... closely related to the old Alba Roses... rose pink that pales slightly with age... borne in large sprays... Named after one of King Lear's daughters in the Shakespeare play of the same name...

Article (misc)  (Jul 2001)  Page(s) 37.  
 
AUSbottle Shrub, medium pink, 2001; Seedling x Seedling... Austin, David; David Austin Roses, Ltd., 2000.

Article (magazine)  (Jun 2000)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Cordelia David Austin... named after the well-known character from Shakespeare's King Lear... rose-pink...