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- ↑ PORTER, Sister Bernadette Mary (entry), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ↑ Profile Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine , roehampton.ac.uk; accessed 23 April 2014.
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