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- ↑ Sally Cline, Carole Angier, Life Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion (2013), p. xv
- ↑ Andrew Hopkins, Gavin Stamp, Lutyens Abroad: The Work of Sir Edwin Lutyens Outside the British Isles (The British Academy, 2002, ISBN 0904152375), p. 183: "Jane Ridley is Senior Lecturer in history at Buckingham University and a great-granddaughter of Lutyens. She published The Letters of Edwin Lutyens (1985), which she co-edited with her mother Clayre Percy..."
- ↑ Andrew Linzey, Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 0195379772), p. 94: "Jane Ridley, herself a hunter, in her notable social history titled Fox Hunting, begins her first page with the words "Fox hunting isn't strictly necessary."
- ↑ Debunking the Dizzy legend in The Tablet dated 17 August 2013, p. 19, online at thetablet.co.uk, accessed 7 March 2014
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