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- ↑ Edward Royle, Victorian Infidels: the origins of the British secularist movement, 1791–1866 (1974), p. 154.
- 1 2 The Carlyle Letters, TC to Joseph Neuburg; 2 February 1852; footnote 2. DOI: 10.1215/lt-18520202-TC-JN-01 CL 27:25-28.
- ↑ ONDB
- ↑ e.g. Wilkie Collins, "A Plea for Sunday Reform", The Leader, 27 September 1851. For identification of other contributions by Collins, see Kirk Beetz, Victorian Periodicals Review 15:1, Spring 1982, pp. 20–29
