[3] In 1912, she participated in militant activity during the campaign for women's suffrage alongside Helen Crawfurd, Annie Swan and others, breaking a window valued at 4 shillings.

[4] Her manager, David Wilkie, wrote to his solicitor James Orr to request intervention on her behalf, on the grounds that the sentence was disproportionate to the crime.

[2] Barrowman's copy of the poetry book, published by the Glasgow branch of the Women's Social and Political Union, was gifted in 1947 to Dr Charity Taylor, the governor of HM Prison Holloway, and it was auctioned by Pickering and Chatto in 2018.

[9] He describes the life of the Barrowman family, as well as Janet's character, appearance, politics, interests and hobbies.

Harrison conducted a second interview about Barrowman with her cousin, Marion Thomas, in July 1977, which covers Janet's relationship with her elder sister, Mary.