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- ↑ Nesta Lloyd (ed.), Seventeenth-Century Poetry Anthology, Volume I, Barddas Publications, (1993)
- ↑ Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson (eds), Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology, Oxford University Press (2001), pp. 157-160
- ↑ "The Wynn Family of Bodewyrd, Anglesey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales.