1. Pamela Dalziel, Introduction, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004) xx.
2. Marjorie Garson, Hardy’s Fables of Integrity: Woman, Body, Text (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991) 95.
3. Philip Allingham, “Sensation Novel Elements in the London Graphic’s Twenty-Part Serialisation of Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (January Through May, 1886),” Thomas Hardy Year Book 31 (2001): 40.
4. Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1987; Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004) 146.
5. John Goode, Thomas Hardy: The Offensive Truth (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988) 79.