Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 305) as 'The Morning before the Massacre of St Bartholomew'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Thornbury, Walter, 'The Morning Before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. August 1572', Once a Week, vol. 7, 16 August 1862, pp. 210-11, wood engraving by Joseph Swain repr. p. 210.

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler: an Artistic Partnership' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 15-31.
• de Montfort, Patricia, ' “A Great Sensation”: Women in White in Late Victorian Literature and Popular Culture' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 147-156.