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- ↑ Alice Payne Hackett. Seventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965, p. 91 (1967)
- ↑ Zipes, Jack. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, Second Edition, p. 192 (2007)
- ↑ A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXV: Southey-Suetonius, p. 13991 (1898?)
- ↑ (2 June 1895). Novel of Early Summer (book review), The New York Times
