Source Of Manuscript Quotations

Barbara T. Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, University of Delaware


Footnote 33, Chapter 2, of the author's Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories, which Princeton University Press published in 1988. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

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