1. See also Monica F. Cohen, Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
2. Susan Johnston, Woman and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction (Westport, CN: Greenwood, 2001).
3. John Burnett, A Social History of Housing, 1815–1985, 2nd ed (London: Methuen, 1986), p. 98.
4. Tamara Wagner, ‘Victorian Fictions of the Nerves: Telepathy and Depression in Wilkie Collins’s The Two Destinies’, Victorians Institute Journal 32 (2004), p. 190.
5. Pamela Gilbert, Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 69–70.