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- ↑ Matthew Gans, Playbill, 12 November 2019
- ↑ Michael Billington, "Austen heroine brought stunningly back to life", The Guardian, 8 November 2018
- ↑ Kathryn Hughes, "Revolting characters", TLS 18 October, 2019
- ↑ Laura Wade, The Watsons, London 2019, ISBN 9781786826381
- ↑ Playbill, 12 November 2019
- ↑ "The West End run of Laura Wade's The Watsons has been cancelled". Evening Standard. 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2020-05-23.