<p>Lewes, »The Lady Novelists«, Westminster Review, 57 (1852): 133.</p>

<p>Lewes, op. cit., 155.</p>

<p>See Elaine and English Showalter, »Victorian Women and Menstruation«, Victorian Studies, Fall 1970.</p>

<p>Letter of September 25, 1862, in Letters of Mrs. Gaskell, ed. J. A. V. Chappie and Arthur Pollard (Manchester, England, 1966), pp. 694-695.</p>

<p>»Miss Martineau's Monthly Novels«, Quarterly Review, 29 (1833): 151.</p>

<p>J. M. Ludlow, »Ruth«, North British Review, 20 (1853): 90-91.</p>

<p>G. H. Lewes, »Currer Bell's Shirley«, Edinburgh Review, 91 (1850): 165.</p>

<p>Frances Power Cobbe, The Duties of Women (Boston, 1881), p. 190.</p>

<p>Josephine E. Butler, ed., Woman's Work and Woman's Culture (London, 1869), p. 8.</p>

<p>Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bronte (London, 1919), p. 125.</p>