1. Letter to Gaskell (1851), cited in Winfred Gérin, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Biography (Oxford: Clarendon, 1976), 123.
2. For details of these serialisations, see Robert D. Mayo’s invaluable The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740–1815 (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1962), 59. On the Nights nineteenth-century reinventions and serialisations, see Muhsin Jassim Ali, Scheherazade in England: A Study of Nineteenth-Century English Criticism of the Arabian Nights (Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1981), 11–14Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion (London: Allen Lane, 1994), 237–92.
3. Lang, ed., The Blue Fairy Book (London: Longmans Green, 1889), xix.
4. See Bottigheimer, ‘The Ultimate Fairy Tale: Oral Transmission in a Literature World’, in A Companion to the Fairy Tale, ed. Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2003), 57–70.
5. Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction (New York: Norton, 1990), 142.