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- ↑ "Chapter Five – A Parallel Forty-Year Female Narrative with Alma De Groen". Radical Visions 1968-2008. Australian Playwrights, Online. Vol. 3. Brill. 2011. pp. 156–157. ISBN 9789401200530.
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