1. Frances Finnegan, Poverty and Prostitution (Cambridge, 1979) p. 43.
2. Ian Gregor, The Great Web (London, 1974) pp. 115–16.
3. Irving Howe, Thomas Hardy (London, 1985) p. 96.
4. J. Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy: Distance and Desire (Cambridge, Mass., 1970) p. 150.
5. Quoted in Lynda Nead, Myths of Sexuality (Oxford, 1988) p. 57.