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- ↑ Text of the story. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ↑ Published in The Female Advocate: or an Attempt to Recover the Rights of Women from Male Usurpation (1799). See Catherine Packham: Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).