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- ↑ Macaulay, Alastair. "Pauline Clayden, now aged one hundred, and her menagerie of ballet roles". alastairmacaulay.com. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
- ↑ @TheRoyalBallet (October 12, 2022). "🎂 Happy 100th birthday to Pauline Clayden, a soloist of Sadler's Wells Ballet from 1942-56!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.