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- ↑ Elite Aesthetics and the Rise of the Stephanian Novel
- ↑ "Of Voids and Speculums; Or Where Is the Woman in the Text", in The Fiction of St. Stephen's, by Brinda Bose
- ↑ At the Gates of St Stephens, by Lotta Strandberg, Muse India
- ↑ Stephenian School of Literature
- ↑ Is there a Stephanian School of Literature?
- ↑ Interview/Amitav Ghosh, Doon Online