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- ↑ D'Ezio 2015.
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- DeLucia, JoEllen (2014). "Transnational aesthetics in Ann Radcliffe's A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 [...] (1795)". In Townshend, Dale; Wright, Angela (eds.). Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 135–150. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139507448. ISBN 978-1-139-50744-8.
- DeLucia, JoEllen (2015-07-03). "Radcliffe, George Robinson and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture: Beyond the Circulating Library". Women's Writing. 22 (3): 287–299. doi:10.1080/09699082.2015.1037981. ISSN 0969-9082. S2CID 155254662.
- D'Ezio, Marianna (2015-07-03). ""As like As Peppermint Water is to Good French Brandy": Ann Radcliffe and Hester Lynch Salusbury (Thrale) Piozzi". Women's Writing. 22 (3): 343–354. doi:10.1080/09699082.2015.1037985. ISSN 0969-9082. S2CID 161366239.
