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- ↑ G. Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District (London 1993) p. 222-3
- ↑ J. Meckier, Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction (2015) p. 139-40
- ↑ W. Collins, The Moonstone (Oxford 1999) p. 438
- ↑ L. Pyckett, Wilkie Collins (2009) p. 127
- ↑ M. Bachman, Reality's Dark Light (2003) p. 125 and 362
- ↑ W. Collins, The Moonstone, (Reader's Digest, 2011), p. 459
- ↑ Haefele-Thomas, Ardel (2012). Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity. University of Wales Press. pp. 12–36.