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- ↑ Edward Irving Carlyle and Elizabeth Goldring, 'Woodhouse, Peter (fl. 1605), poet', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
- ↑ Helen Smith (2012). 'Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. OUP Oxford. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-19-965158-0.
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