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Huskey, Melynda. "No Name: Embodying the Sensation Heroine." Victorian Newsletter 1992 (No, 82/Fall) 5-13.

Hughes, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1980.

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Pykett, Lyn. The 'Improper' Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing. London & New York: Routledge, 1992.

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