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- ↑ Fantina, Richard. Victorian Sensational Fiction: The Daring Work of Charles Reade, p. 32 (2010)
- ↑ Austin, Finola (4 August 2013). Review: A Terrible Temptation, Charles Reade (1871), The Secret Victorianist