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- ↑ Brake, L.; Demoor, M. (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8 . Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ↑ Beetham, M. (2003). A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-134-76878-3 . Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ↑ Clay, C. (2018). Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-1254-4 . Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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