- Kratmayer's Waxworks Exhibition Catalogue, Melbourne, c. 1903, 14.
- Mimi Colligan, personal interview, 17 April 1994.
- James Holledge, Australia's Wickedest Women, Sydney: Horwitz, 1963, 122–30.
- Michael Cannon, The Woman as Murderer, Mornington, Vic: Today's Australia Publishing Company, 1994, 126.
- Kathy Laster, ‘Arbitrary Chivalry: Women and Capital Punishment in Victoria, 1842–1967’ in David Phillips and Susanne Davies (eds), A Nation of Rogues? Crime, Law and Capital Punishment in Colonial Australia, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994, 175. The furphy about Knorr being arrested whilst in labour also appears in Alan Sharpe, Crimes that Shocked Australia, Milson's Point, NSW: Currawong Press, 1982, 109.
- Age, 7 Sep. 1893, 5.
- Judith Allen, Sex & Secrets: Crimes involving Australian Women since 1880, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990, 31.
- Judith Allen, ‘Otavius Beale reconsidered: infanticide, babyfarming and abortion in NSW 1880–1939’ in Sydney Labour History Group (eds), What Rough Beast? The State and Social Order in Australian History, Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1982, 116.
- The figures are Kathy Laster's, from ‘Frances Knorn “She Killed Babies, didn't she?”’ in Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly (eds), Double Time Women in Victoria—150 Years, Melbourne: Penguin, 1985, 155; Allen, op. cit., n.7, 31.
- Allen, op. cit., n. 7, 30.
- Doneila Jaggs, Neglected and Criminal: Foundations of Child Welfare Legislation in Victoria, Melbourne: Phillip Institute of Technology, 1986, 119.
- Age, 6 Sep. 1893, 5.
- W.W., To Be Left till Called for’ in The Detective's Album, Melbourne, 1871. An infanticide due to post-natal psychosis is described in her fictionalized autobiography, reprinted in Lucy Sussex (ed.), The Fortunes of Maty Fortune, Melbourne: Penguin, 1989, 81–8.
- Argus, 5 Sep. 1893, 5.
- Ibid.
- Age, 6 Sep. 1893, 5.
- Ibid.
- Argus, 6 Sep. 1893, 5.
- Ibid; and Age, op. cit., n. 16.
- Argus, 1 Sep. 1893, 9.
- Quoted in Lionel Rose, The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide in Britain 1800–1935, London: Routledge, 1986, 36.
- Argus, op. cit., n. 20.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Reprinted in Kathy Laster, op. cit., n. 9, 154.
- Argus, 7 Sep. 1893, 5.
- Ibid.
- Age, 9 Sep. 1893, 5.
- Age, 7 Sep. 1893, 5.
- Herald, 15 Jan. 1894, 5.
- Report, Victorian Public Record Office, Series 264, File 22.
- Weekly Times, 20 Jan. 1894, 21.
- Illustrated Sydney News, 6 Dec. 1893, 18; Town and Country Journal, 20 Jan. 1894, 10; Weekly Times, 20 Jan. 1894, 21; reprinted in Andrew Palmer, ‘Digging Up the Dirt on Makin (Dec. 1993) Law Institute Journal, 1170.
- Age, 8 Sep. 1893, 6.
- Trial Transcript, Victorian Public Records Office, Series 264, File 22.
- Ibid.
- Argus, 1 Dec. 1893, 7.
- The Australian Law Times, 1894, 445.
- Argus, 2 Dec. 1894, 10.
- Age, 4 Dec. 1894, 2. This is the editorial of which extracts are quoted by Cannon with reference to Martha Needle.
- Laster, op. cit., n. 9, 151.
- Argus, 6 Jan. 1984, 5.
- Laster, op. cit., n. 5, 175.
- Weekly Times, 20 Jan. 1894, 21.
- Michael Lawrence, They Hanged in Melbourne, Melbourne: Swell.
- Argus, 4 Jan. 1894, 7.
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