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- ↑ Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor, ' Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland, Oxford University Press 2005, ISBN 9780521813372
- ↑ "SHIP NEWS", Morning Chronicle (London, England), Tuesday, January 19, 1808; Issue 12068.
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