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- ↑ "MR. ALFRED DAMPIER". The Daily News . Vol. XIV, no. 6, 757. Western Australia. 17 April 1897. p. 5. Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "A Young Australian Actress". Evening News . No. 7639. New South Wales, Australia. 21 November 1891. p. 1 (Evening News Supplement). Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Advocate Magazine". Advocate . Vol. LXXXVI, no. 5110. Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1953. p. 9. Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- 1 2 Williams, Margaret (1983). Australia on the popular stage, 1829-1929 : an historical entertainment in six acts. p. 150.
- ↑ "Advertising". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . Vol. XII, no. 1046. New South Wales, Australia. 19 December 1885. p. 1. Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "VICTORIA THEATRE". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . Vol. XII, no. 1047. New South Wales, Australia. 21 December 1885. p. 2. Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "PLAYWRIGHT AND PLAYER". The Express and Telegraph . Vol. XXXIV, no. 9, 973. South Australia. 29 January 1897. p. 3 (ONE O'CLOCK EDITION). Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "AUSTRALIAN DRAMA". Daily Herald . Vol. 2, no. 568. South Australia. 30 December 1911. p. 6. Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Commercial Success with". The Sun . No. 1890. New South Wales, Australia. 18 June 1939. p. 11 (Sunday Magazine). Retrieved 21 August 2023– via National Library of Australia.