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- ↑ Clay, Catherine (2018). "'The Weekly Crowd. By Chimaera': Collective Identities and Radical Culture, Chapter 2 in 'Time and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine'". Edinburgh University Press. p. 74.
- ↑ Reed, Eleanor (13 August 2020). "The Dinner Puzzle: A Very Special Evening for Time and Tide and Lady Rhondda's network". Time And Tide.
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