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- Rosenberg , Charles E. 1962 . “The place of George M. Beard in nineteenth century psychiatry,” . Bulletin of the History of Medicine , 37 : 245
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- Freud , Sigmund . 1963 . “'Civilized’ sexual morality and modern nervousness,” . In Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, , Edited by: Rieff , Philip . 23 – 24 . New York : Collier .
- Beecher , Catharine . 1972 . “On female health in America ” . In Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women, , Edited by: Cott , Nancy F. 263 New York : E. P. Dutton & co. .
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- Wakefield , Edward . 1893–94 . “Nervousness: The national disease of America," . McClure's Magazine , 2 : 302 – 07 .
- Haller , John S. Jr. and Haller , Robin M. 1974 . The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America , 26 Urbana : The University of Illinois Press .
- Ehrenreich , Barbara and English , Deirdre . 1973 . Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness , Glass Mountain Pamphlet No. 2 Old Westbury, New York : Feminist Press .
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- Hartman , Mary S. and Banner , Lois , eds. 1974 . Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women , New York : Harper & Row .
- Morantz , Regina Markell . 1974 . “The perils of feminist history,” . Journal of Interdisciplinary History , IV ( 4 ) Spring : 649 – 660 .
- Smith‐Rosenberg , Carroll . 1972 . “The hysterical woman: Sex roles in nineteenth century America,” . Social Research , 39 ( 4 ) Winter : 652 – 78 .
- Verbrugge , Martha H. 1976 . “Women and medicine in nineteenth‐century America,” . Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , 1 ( 4 ) Summer : 957 – 72 .
- Vicinus , Martha , ed. 1972 . Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age , Bloomington : Indiana University Press .
- Johnson , Thomas H. and Ward , Theodora , eds. 1958 . The Letter of Emily Dickinson, , Vol. I , 97 Cambridge : Harvard University Press .
- Mudge , Jean McClure . 1975 . Emily Dickinson & the Image of Home , 77 Amherst : The University of Massachusetts Press .
- Letters , II 324
- Johnson , Thomas H. , ed. 1955 . The Poems of Emily Dickinson, , Cambridge : Harvard University Press .
- 1971 . The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, , Vol. I , 345 New York : Oxford University Press . Emily Dickinson would also have been familiar with this connotation through her reading of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater.
- Fletcher , Angus . 1964 . Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode , 157 – 61 . Ithaca : Cornell University Press .
- Letters , II 555
- Letters , III 690
- Letters , III 922 – 23 .
- Letters , II 425
- Letters , III 986
- Letters , II 407
- Letters , II 648
- Letters , III 750
- Letters , III 826 – 27 .