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This article was originally presented as a lecture at the Conference of Departments of Spanish of the University of Wales, held at Gegynog in March, 1975. I am in debted to Professor Arthur Terry for helpful suggestions.
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E. Pardo Bazán, Obras completas (novelas y cuentos), ed. Federico Carlos Sáinz de Robles, third edition (Madrid, 1957), I, 174.
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José María Pereda, Obras completas, ed. José María de Cossío, sixth edition (Madrid, 1954), II, 1191.
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Using the well-worn image of the body politic, Pereda argues in Peñas arriba that «la reconstitución del cuerpo degenerado y podrido ha de venir por la sangre pura de las extremedidades» (OC, II, 1365).
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For the two versions of the ending of this novel, see Florian Smieja, «An Alternative Ending of La Fontana de Oro», MLR, LXI (1966), 426-433 and Joaquín Gimeno Casalduero's article in the anejo to vol. XI of Anales galdosianos, pp. 55-69.
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B. Pérez Galdós, Obras completas, ed. Federico Carlos Sáinz de Robles, third edition (Madrid, 1954), IV 186-187.
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J. E. Varey, Pérez Galdós: Doña Perfecta, Critical Guides to Spanish Texts, I (London, 1971), pp. 11-12, 22-25.
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OC, IV, 559. This edition reads, incorrectly, «Espesísimo es el centro...»
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Quotations from La desheredada are taken from the first edition (Madrid, 1881), followed in each case by a reference to OC, IV.
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The quotation is taken from the first edition (Madrid, 1895), followed by a reference to the Obras completas, ed. Federico Carlos Sáinz de Robles, second edition (Madrid, 1950), vol. V.