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- ↑ Irwin, Margaret (1 July 1899). "The Shop Seats Bill Movement". Fortnightly Review. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ↑ "The Public General Acts passed in the Sixty-Second and Sixty-Third Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; being the Fifth Session of the Twenty-Sixth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland". 1899. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ↑ Sheila Lewenhak (1977). Women and trade unions : an outline history of women in the British trade union movement. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0312887759.