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- ↑ Sarah Orne Jewett, The Atlantic Monthly, 1903, p. 12
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, New York: American Commonwealth Company, p. 74.
- ↑ With information from brief biography (The New York Times, 30 Nov. 1901, p. BR13) and obituary ("Deaconess Anna Barbour: Author of 'That Mainwaring Affair,' a Best Seller of 1900," The New York Times, 16 May 1941, p. 23).
