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8. Thackeray to Mrs Carmichael-Smith, March 1839,
The Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray
, ed. Gordon Ray, 4 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1945), 1:380.
9. David Grylls,
Guardians and Angels: Parents and Children in Nineteenth-Century Literature
(London: Faber & Faber, 1978), esp. ch. 1.
10. E. M. Sewell,
Amy Herbert
(1844), ch. 29.
11. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(1852), ch. 27.
12. Thomas Hardy,
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(1891), chapter 14, and
Jude the Obscure
(1896) V iiiVI ii.
13. Gustave Flaubert,
l'Education sentimentale
(1869), part ii, ch. 6 (my translation).
14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Die Wahlverwandschaften
(1809), part ii, chap. 13.
15. Alfred Lord Tennyson, "As through the land", from
The Princess
(1847).
16.
Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age,
ed. E. Royston Pike (London: Allen & Unwin, 1967), 229230.
17. See chap. 5, esp. 187, 189208, for discussion of "little."
18. Susan Sonntag,
Illness as Metaphor
(New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1978), 18n.113.
19. Gustave Flaubert, Letter to his niece Caroline, March 1868.
Correspondance,
9 Vols. (Paris: Louis Conard, 19261933), 5:359.
20. The relevant passages from the
Clinique Médicale
of Trousseau are quoted, along with the corresponding passages from the novel, in the edition of René Dumesnil (Paris: Société les Belles Lettres, 1958), 2:349.

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