1. James Hannay, ‘Provincialism’, Cornhill Magazine, XI (1865) p. 674.
2. Quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, ed. E. P. Watson (London: Oxford University Press, 1972) p. 161.
3. Eugène Forçade, Revue des Deux Mondes, 31 October 1848
4. quoted in The Brontës: The Critical Heritage, ed. Miriam Allott (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974) p. 102
5. Matthew Arnold, ‘The Literary Influence of Academies’, Essays in Criticism, ed. R. H. Super (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1962) p. 249.