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- ↑ Kate Macdonald (30 September 2015). Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty Nine Steps. Routledge. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-317-30340-4.
- ↑ Fitzgerald, Jennifer (2000). "'Jazzing the Middle Ages': The Feminist Genesis of Helen Waddell's The Wandering Scholars". Irish Studies Review. 8: 5–22. doi:10.1080/09670880050005075.