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Close reading of the 2003 Penguin Classics paperback edition (Rosemary Ashton ed.) ISBN-13: 978-0-141-43954-9 Chapter 31, Pages 293 to 299

Adam Roberts' book, "Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors" available online at
openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0249
Jane Austen today - blog posts about reticules
janitesonthejames.blogspot.com/2007/02/reticule-and-purse.html
janeaustensworld.com/2007/10/07/the-reticule-a-fashionable-accessory-in-the-regency-period
Lucretius De Rerum Natura, English translation. See page ix for the passage Eliot's narrator quotes on page 294
archive.org/details/onnatureofthing00lucr/page/n11/mode/2up