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- William Hazlitt, 'The Indian Jugglers', in Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays , vol. 1 (London, 1821).
- Karina Williamson, 'Cavanagh, John [Jack] (d. 1819)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) – online version, accessed 3 Nov 2012.
- Wu, Duncan. William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
