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- ↑ Soskice, Janet (2010) Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels. London: Vintage, 146 - 187
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- ↑ Nick Harvey, Jean Fornasiero, Greg McCarthy, Clem Macintyre and Carl Crossin, eds., A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876-2012 , University of Adelaide Press, 2012.
- ↑ The University of Adelaide Calendar 1990-1991, Vol. 1, The University of Adelaide, 1992, p. 152.
- ↑ Cambridge University Press, Our Journey to Sinai: A Visit to the Convent of St Catarina, Agnes Bensly
- ↑ GoodReads website, Our Journey to Sinai: A Visit to the Convent of St Catarina, by Agnes Bensly
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Bendall, Cecil (1901). "Bensly, Robert Lubbock". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
