Bibiography for "The Ideology of 'eternal truth': William Holman Hunt and The Lady of Shalott 1850-1905" by Andrew Leng, which originally appeared in volume 7 (1991) of Word & Image. It appears in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

This web version is a project supported by the University Scholars Programme of the National University of Singapore. It was carried out by the following Student Research Assistants under the direction of George P. Landow: Derrick Wong of School of Design and Environment created the electronic text using OmniPage Pro OCR software; Sabrina Lim of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences created the HTML version, including converting footnotes to in-text citations; all links to materials in VW were added by Landow.


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Davidson, Angus. Edward Lear Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet. (1938).

Neuringer, Miriam. 'The Burden of Meaning: Hunt's Lady of Shalott', in Ladies of Shalott: A Victorian Masterpiece and Its Contexts (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Department of Art, 1985).

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