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- ↑ Diana Athill (2012). Make Believe: A True Story. London: Granta. p. 118.
Patrick French, in his introduction to Athill's book, attributes to Girardet the "perfectly Nabokovian name" of 'Herbert G. Herbert' - an error that has never been corrected in any subsequent edition.
- ↑ BENSON, Gale. "Autograph postcard sent from Gale Benson in Port of Spain, Trinidad to Oz magazine editor Jim Anderson in London". BeatBooks. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
postmarked November 8, 1971, only a month after her arrival with Hakim Jamal from Guyana and less than two months before she was murdered... The company she mentions, the non-existent First Caribbean Publishing Company, was Hakim's ruse to hustle funding from the German publishing heir Herbert Girardet, his counterpart to Michael X's former benefactor, Nigel Samuel.
- ↑ Athill, Make Believe, pp. 124–27.
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