1. The quotation is from Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (London: Penguin, 1995 [1818]), p. 97.
2. See for example, Olwen Hufton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, Vol. I (London: HarperCollins, 1995), p. 1.
3. Jonathan Haslam, The Vices of lntegrity: E.H. Carr, 1892–1982 (London: Verso, 1999).
4. Edward Hallett Carr, What is History? (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1962), p. 26.
5. Carl Bridenbaugh, ‘The Great Mutation’, American Historical Review, vol. LXVIII (January, 1963), pp. 322–3.