Francis Smith Eastman: A history of the state of New York ... First edition 1828; later edition (with reprints) 1831. Details of wording identify the 1831 edition (or a later one) as the source.
Fiction
Daniel Jackson/Isaac Mitchell: Alonzo and Melissa. For details, see Project Gutenberg [e-text 28112]. Written 1804 by Mitchell; first book publication (pirated by Jackson) 1811, with many reprints. Wording in Alida does not consistently correspond to any of the editions used for the Alonzo and Melissa e-text. Quotations are generally from 1811 except where a different edition matches the wording more closely. “A&M”
By word count, Alida’s favorite source: chapters VII-XII inclusive, much of the adjoining chapters VI and XIII, most of XXXIII-XXXIV (the final two chapters), and many other passages of varying length. See beginning of [chapter VI] for more information.
Regina Maria Roche: The Children of the Abbey. First published 1796, reprinted throughout the following century. Quotations from 1877.
Mrs. (Mary Martha) Sherwood: The Broken Hyacinth; The Lady of the Manor.
Alida may contain other quotations from this author; most phrases are too short to be unambiguous. Mrs. Sherwood’s fiction has a strong religious element, and she seems the kind of author Amelia Comfield would have liked.
Robert Folkestone Williams: Mephistophiles in England, or the Confessions of a Prime Minister. 1835.
Alida only quotes one passage from this two-volume novel. The episode may have been reprinted in some other text, or the novel itself may have lifted it from an earlier source.
Amelia Stratton Comfield: Alida.