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References
- Henry Spencer Ashbee (as Pisanus Fraxi), "Bibliography of Forbidden Books", Volume 1, 1877, p.353
- John Sutherland, "The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction", Stanford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8047-1842-3, p.307.
- Walter M. Kendrick, "The secret museum: pornography in modern culture", University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 0-520-20729-7, p.168
- Sharon Marcus, "Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England", Princeton paperbacks, Princeton University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-691-12835-9, p.145
- Joanne Shattock, "The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature:, Volume 4; Volumes 1800-1900", Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-521-39100-8, p.1905
- Lisa Z. Sigel, International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800-2000 (Rutgers University Press, 2005), ISBN 0-8135-3519-0, pp.73-74,95-96
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