Rachel Nolan, author of ClassicNote. Completed on July 15, 2006, copyright held by GradeSaver.

Updated and revised by Adam Kissel September 30, 2006. Copyright held by GradeSaver.

Dorothy Dodd. The George Eliot Country. Nuneaton: Nuneaton Burough Council, 1966.

George Eliot. Adam Bede. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

George Newlin, ed. Everyone and Everything in George Eliot. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

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