1. Gooneratne, Jane Austen, p. 26. See Q. D. Leavis, ‘A Critical Theory of Jane Austen’s Writings’, Scrutiny, 12 (1944) 104–19.
2. The fullest discussion of Austen’s treatment of the sexual is by A. Chandler ‘“A Pair of Fine Eyes”: Jane Austen’s Treatment of Sex’, Studies in the Novel, 7 (1975) 88–103.
3. Bowen, ‘Jane Austen’, in D. Verschoyle (ed.), The English Novelists (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936) p. 105; J. Brown, Jane Austen’s Novels pp. 12–15; J. Fergus, ‘Sex and Social Life in Jane Austen’s Novels’, in Monaghan, Jane Austen in a Social Context pp. 66–85
4. G. Gould, ‘The Gate Scene at Sotherton in Mansfield Park’, Literature and Psychology, 20 (1970) 75–8
5. J. Hagstrum, Sex and Sensibility (University of Chicago Press, 1980) pp. 268–74; Mansell, Novels of,Jane Austen p. 98