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- ↑ Ruth Perry: Novel Relations. The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature, 1748–1818 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 150n.
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- ↑ Perry..., pp. 150 and 397. The sudden instinctive discovery of a near relative as a plot device is parodied in Jane Austen's Love and Freindship (1790), quoted by Perry (p. 400).
- ↑ Blackwells...; Li-Ping Geng's review in Eighteenth Century Fiction, Vol. 15 (2003), No. 2. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ↑ Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (1779). The Sylph. Northwestern University Press. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-0-8101-2229-1 . Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ↑ Gothic Wanderer blog (by the American critic Tyler R. Tichelaar) provides a synopsis and analysis. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ↑ Sophia Briscoe to W. Pitt, 14 December 1797. Chatham Papers, British National Archives, Vol. 264, f. 168. Quoted in Dror Wahrman: Imagining the Middle Class... (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
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