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- ↑ Collins, Wilkie (1889). "Blind Love". Illustrated London News. 95 (2620): 11–13 – via archive.org.
- ↑ Collins, Wilkie (1889). "Blind Love". Illustrated London News. 95 (2621): 45–47 – via archive.org.
- ↑ Stanford, Jane, 'That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O'Connor Power', History Press Ireland, May 2011, Part Three 'The Fenian is the Artist', 121-122. ISBN 978-1- 84588-698-1
- ↑ Maria K. Bachman, "Furious Passions of the Celtic Race: Ireland, Madness, and Wilkie Collins's Blind Love," in: Victorian Crime, Madness, and Sensation, edited by Andrew Maunder and Grace Moore, London, Ashgate, 2004; pp. 179-94.
