1. Discussed in Christopher Flint, ‘Orphaning the Family: The Role of Kinship in Robinson Crusoe’, ELH, 55(2), 1988, 381.
2. David Fordyce, The New and Complete British Letter-Writer; Or, Young Secretary’s Instructor in Polite Modern Letter-Writing, London: C. Cooke, 1790.
3. Kevin Binfield (ed.), Writings of the Luddites, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 155–156.
4. Diane Snow, ‘Family Policy and Orphan Schools in Early Colonial Australia’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 22(2), 1991, 255.
5. Rüssel Ward, The Australian Legend, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1987 (1958), 95