SOURCES FOR THE VIRGIN MARTYR

Foxe, John. Acts and Monuments (f. pr. 1563). Using the account of St. Agnes.

(perhaps) Surius, Laurentius. De Probatis Sanctorum Historiis (1570).

Villegas, Alonso de. The Lives of Saints (f. pr. 1609). Using the accounts of St. Agnes, St. Dorothea and poss. St Agatha in vol. 2 (pr. 1615).

Voraigne, Jacobus de. The Golden Legend. Trans. William Caxton [?] (f.pr. 1483). Using the account of St. Dorothea in the 1503 edtn.

REFERENCE : Julia Gasper. 'The Sources of The Virgin Martyr'. Review of English Studies 155 (1991): 17-31.