"…even when the setting of a narrative is stated to be a named location, there is a real danger that…there can be a failure to distinguish clearly between actuality and artistic licence."

  
1. In an email to the present writer (27 August 2009)



  
2. In an email to the present writer (19 April 2009)



  
3. Walks in old London / Peter Jackson. — London : Collins & Brown, 1993. — p.26



  
4. Survey of London. Vol.34: Parish of St Ann's, Soho; pt 2: South of Shaftesbury Avenue. — London : Athlone Pr, 19-


  
5. Introduction to George Moore (1852-1933) / Joseph S O'Leary (17 Sep 2005) http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/09/index.html accessed on 8 August 2007

  
6. 'The Business of hydropathy in the north of England, c.1850-1930' / Alastair J Durie Northern History (39,1; Mar 2002) pp.37-58; and Water is best: the hydros and health tourism in Scotland, 1840-1940 / Alastair J Durie. — Edinburgh : John Donald, 2006

  
7. From the review of a three book omnibus edition of Rita's works called The Seventh dream (London : Hurst & Blackett, 1905) by an unknown reviewer in: The Scotsman (14 Sep 1905) p.2

  
8. 'The hot-air bath' / B W Richardson British Medical Journal (2 Feb 1861) p.115



  
9. Bestseller: the books that everyone read, 1900-1939 / Claud Cockburn. — London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972


  
10. Gay New York: the making of the gay male world, 1890-1940 / George Chauncey. — London : Flamingo, 1995


  
11. Chapter 27, Victorian Turkish baths: ‘sites of sex and sociability’? of my own book, Victorian Turkish Baths, discusses this subject at greater length.
  
12. 'A Sun among cities': space, identities and queer male practices, London 1918-57 / Matt Houlbrook (University of Essex PhD Thesis, 2001) p.127 Houlbrook has since published: Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 (Univ of Chicago Pr, 2005)
  
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