1
José F. Montesinos, GaIdós (Madrid: Castalia, 1968), p. 140.
2
Alfred Rodríguez, An Introduction to the Episodios Nacionales of Galdós (New York: Las Américas, 1967), p. 82.
3
Benito Pérez Galdós, Obras Completas, volume II, 10th ed. (Madrid: Aguilar, 1968), p. 11. All further page references will be to this edition.
4
Page references are to the first edition of Los apostólicos (Madrid, 1879); these are followed by a second reference to the Aguilar edition of the Obras completas, ed. F. C. Sainz de Robles, vol. II (Madrid, 1965).
5
S. Ortega, Cartas a Galdós (Madrid, 1964), pp. 32-33.
6
E. Varela Hervías, Cartas de Pérez Galdós a Mesonero Romanos (Madrid, 1943), p. 45.
7
Ibid., pp. 45-46.
8
R. Navas-Ruiz, El romanticismo español: historia y crítica (Madrid, 1970), pp. 24-25.
9
A series of ten articles published in La Ilustración Española y Americana between 8 January and 22 September 1876; each article will be referred to by number only.
10
See W. H. Shoemaker, Los artículos de Galdós en «La nación», 1865-1866, 1868 (Madrid, 1972), p. 239.