The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “The 15 ugliest historical figures.”
- Symposium by Xenophon
- Aesop: Myth or Reality?
- Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars
- Charles II: the last Spanish Habsburg
- Leopold I: the ‘Baroque emperor’
- Louis XI becomes King of France
- John Wilkes (1725-1797)
- The Pockmarked Face of the Comte de Mirabeau
- Camille Desmoulins
- ‘The new Terrors of Death’: Dr John Arbuthnot, Queen Anne’s favourite physician
- Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. And of the Regency
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Outlaw: George Eliot
- Miss Katherine Read, Court Paintress