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- ↑ "Playwrights and their Stage Works - Dion Boucicault"; Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ↑ Richard Fawkes, p. 263.
- ↑ "A List of Dion Boucicault's Major Dramatic Works"; Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ↑ "'JEANIE DEANS' AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL". The Scotsman. 3 May 1910. p. 5.
- ↑ Music Hall and Theatre Review, Thursday 18 April 1912 p6 col3: A comedian's career, Marriott Edgar's interesting story
- ↑ British Library catalogue; Retrieved 2012-02-02:
- "The Heart of Mid-Lothian; or, the Sisters of St Leonard's A drama in three acts. Adapted from Sir Walter Scott's novel, with introductions from T Dibdin's play, W Murray's alteration of the same, Eugene Scribe's opera, and Dion Boucicault's amalgamation of the above, Colin Hazlewood's adjustment and re-adjustment, J B Johnstone's appropriation, and other equally original versions, together with a very small amount of new matter, by T H Lacy. Author: Thomas Hailes Lacy 1809-1873. Publication Details: London : Thomas Hailes Lacy, [1863]".
- ↑ Richard Fawkes, Dion Boucicault: a Biography, London: Quartet Books, 1979, p.141: "The Trial of Effie Deans was the play Jeanie Deans . . ."