On Jean Watts:

• Nancy Butler’s 2010 dissertation: Mother Russia and the Socialist Fatherland: Woman and the Communist Party of Canada, 1932-1941.
• Larry Hannant's article: “‘My God, are they sending women?’: Three Canadian Women in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” Journal of Canadian Historical Association 15.1 (2004).153-176.
• Dorothy Livesay’s memoirs:
  • Journey with my Selves: A Memoir, 1909-1963. Douglas & McIntyre, 1991.
  • Right Hand Left Hand: A True Life of the Thirties. Press Porcépic, 1977.
• Emily Murphy’s 5-part case study on Jean Watts and journalism in the Spanish Civil War

We cited a conference paper Bart Vautour gave at Discourse & Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals, at Mount Allison University in October 2014: “Jim Watts and the Gendered Politics of Cultural Production in 1930s Canada.” 

We read from these articles by Jean Watts: 

• “Spain is Different.” New Frontier 2.2 (June 1937): 12-14. 
• Writing for the Committee to Aid Spanish Refugees, Information Bulletin, No. 1, 25 May 1939 

Other:

• Article in Briarpatch about Spanish Refugees: “Canadian Radicals and the Spanish Republic” by Steven Henry Martin 
• Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Series:
  • My Brilliant Friend
  • The Story of a New Name
  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
  • The Story of the Lost Child
• Martha Acklesberg’s 2004 book Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women.