1. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. 3 vols. Trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage Books [Random House], 1978; rpt. 1990), 34.
2. See John Sutherland’s discussion of sexual secrets in Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction, which includes essays such as “Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives?” and “WTio is Tom Jones’ Father?” (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) as well as William A. Cohen’s Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996).
3. The evidence is summarized in Maxwell Gold’s Swift’s Marriage to Stella (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937); Ehrenpreis rejects the evidence for any marriage, Swift, 3: 405.
4. Daniel W. Wilson, “Science, Natural Law, and Unwitting Sibling Incest in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, 13 (1984), 249–70.
5. See Julia Shaffer, “Familial Love, Incest, and Female Desire in Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Novels, Criticism 41:1 (Winter 1999), 67–99.