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- ↑ The Royal Society of Portrait Painters website Archived 2009-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards". www.societyofauthors.org. The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
