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- ↑ James Silk Buckingham; John Sterling; Frederick Denison Maurice, Henry Stebbing, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Thomas Kibble Hervey, William Hepworth Dixon, Norman Maccoll, Vernon Horace Rendall, John Middleton Murry (1871). The Athenaeum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama. J. Francis. pp. 423–.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ R. J. Morris The Historical Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 1981), pp. 89-109 Samuel Smiles and the Genesis of Self-Help; the Retreat to a Petit Bourgeois Utopia
- ↑ The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine. Yorkshire Literary Union. 1874. pp. 336–.
- ↑ "Leeds Times in British Newspaper Archive". British Newspaper Archive. 1874. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
