The following references have been used in creating this homepage.

"Shadows on the Stage"
Theatre in New Zealand - the first 70 years by Peter Downes.
Published by John McIndoe Limited.

"Opera's Farthest Frontier"
a history of professional opera in New Zealand by Adrienne Simpson.
Published by Reed Books.

"Gilbert & Sullivan Opera in Australia"
by Vinia de Loitte.
Published by Whitmarks Ltd, Sydney

"The Pollards. A family and its child and adult opera companies in New Zealand and Australia."
by Peter Downes.
Published by Steele Roberts, New Zealand.

"The Performing Arts as Cultural History"
Edited by Katherine Brisbane.
Published by Currency Press, Sydney.

"J.C.W. A short biography of James Cassius Williamson"
by Ian Dicker.
Published by the Elizabeth Tudor Press, N.S.W.

"The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan"
by Reginald Allen.
Published by the Heritage Press, New York.

"The Gilbert and Sullivan Book"
by Leslie Baily.
Published by Cassel & Company Ltd.

"Music and the Stage in New Zealand"
by Maurice Hurst.
Published by Charles Begg & Company Ltd.

"The Gilbert and Sullivan Companion"
by Leslie Ayre.
Published by Papermac.

"Final Curtain - The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas"
by John Wolfson.
Published by Chappell & Company in association with André Deutsch.

"The Savoy Operas"
by Sir W.S.Gilbert.
Published by MacMillan & Co Ltd, London.

"Savoy Operas"
by Geoffrey Smith.
Published by Robert Hale Ltd, London

"Arthur Sullivan: a 'colourful and judicious' portrait of W.S. Gilbert's remarkable partner"
by Arthur Jacobs.
Published by Oxford University Press. <

"Gilbert and Sullivan - a picture history"
by Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson.
Published by Vista Books 1962

"The Silent Showman, Sir George Tallis"
by Michael and Joan Tallis.
Published by Wakefield Press.

"Gilbert and Sullivan"
by Hesketh Pearson.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. London.

"Stars of Australian Stage and Screen"
by Hal Porter
Published by Rigby Limited, Adelaide

"Theatre in Australia"
by John West
Published by Cassell Australia

"Dames, Principal Boys...and all that: A History of Pantomine in Australia"
by Viola Tait
Published by MacMillan, Melbourne

"Gilbert and Sullivan's London"
by Andrew Goodman.
Published by Spellmount Limited. Tunbridge Wells.

"Gilbert and Sullivan - the D'Oyly Carte years"
by Robin Wilson and Frederic Lloyd.
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.

"Gilbert and Sullivan and their Victorian World"
by Christopher Hibbert.
Published by American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., New York.

"The Handbook of Gilbert and Sullivan"
by Frank Ledlie Moore.
Published by Artur baker Limited, London. <

"The Life and Reminiscences of Jessie Bond"
As told by herself to Ethel MacGeorge
Published by John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1930.

"W.S. Gilbert - A Classic Victorian & his Theatre"
by Jane W. Stedman.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1996.

"A Distant Music - The life and times of Alfred Hill"
by John Mansfield Thomson.
Published by the Oxford University Press.

"Oxford Companion to Australian Music"
Edited by Warren Bebbington.
Published by the Oxford University Press. Australia 1977.

"Gilbert, Sullivan, and D'Oyly Carte"
by Françis Cellier & Cunningham Bridgeman.
Published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, London 1914.

"Theatre in Australia"
by John West. Published by Cassall Australia.

"The New Zealand Book of Events"
by various editors.
Published by Reed Methuen.

"Chronicles of the 20th Century"
Conceived by Jacques Legrand.
Published by Chronicle Communications Ltd, London/ Penguin Books, Australia Ltd.

"Alice May: Gilbert & Sullivan's First Prima Donna"
By Adrienne Simpson.
Published by Routledge, New York and London

"Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia"
John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell, general editors
Published by Currency House Inc. Sydney

"My Life of Song"
by Gladys Moncrieff
Published by Rigby Limited, 1971

Thanks to the Savoy Group, London, for the history of the Savoy Hotel.

Thanks to Frank Van Straten, OAM, of Melbourne, Australia, for valuable information on the first performances in Australia.

Thanks to Eric Irvin and his article on George Miln published by the Australasian Drama Sudies, October 1991.

Thanks to the National Trapshooting Hall of Fame website for information on W.F. Carver www.traphof.org

And many thanks to Tim Devlin of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Republic, for a lot of help and information from his own private collection.

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