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- ↑ Shorter's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states 1892.
- 1 2 Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918, pp. 351–2
- ↑ "Howard Coster", The National Portrait Gallery, retrieved 11 February 2013
- ↑ The Sketch. Wednesday 14 March 1928, pp 39, 40. An announcement that Howard was unable to contribute appeared in The Sketch of 21 and 28 March 1928
- ↑ "British Library Newspaper Collections". British Library. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
