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- ↑ Donald Serrell Thomas, Swinburne, the poet in his world, Oxford University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-19-520136-1, p.216
- ↑ Patrick J. Kearney, "The Private Case: an annotated bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library", J. Landesman, 1981, p.215
- ↑ Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female , Indiana University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-253-33411-X, p.805
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