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- ↑ Oxford in Fiction: an annotated bibliography, Judy G. Batson
- ↑ Somerville Stories – Dorothy L Sayers Archived 5 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine , Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK.
- ↑ Motion, Andrew: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life (London: Faber and Faber, 1993), pp. 93–96
