1. This account of the final hours of life in Jonestown is taken from T. Reiterman (1982, 2008) Raven: The Untold Story of the Reverend Jim Jones and his People (New York: Penguin), 487–569.
2. J.E. Hall (2004) Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History (New York: Transaction Publishers), 191.
3. S. Bercovitch (1996) The Cambridge History of American Literature (London: Cambridge University Press), 32.
4. A. Bradstreet, ‘To My Dear Children’ cited in D. Anderson (1999) A House Divided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 9.
5. J. Stockwell (1998) The Encyclopaedia of American Communes, 1663–1963 (North Carolina: McFarland), 3.