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- 1 2 The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, ed. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 272.
- ↑ Elizabeth Dawbarn (1816). The young person's assistant in reading the Old Testament; in a series of letters from a mother to her children, relative to divine truth. p. 7.
- 1 2 Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters, ed. Marion N. Taylor and Agnes Choi (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic) Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ↑ See, for example, the Index of Notable Baptists... before 1850 Retrieved 8 July 2016.