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  • 24 Jan 2017
    Samantha Evans

    Emma Darwin and women’s higher education

    In this blog post Samantha Evans, editor of Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters, looks at the life of Emma Darwin and her relationship with women's higher education.

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  • 24 Jan 2017
    Samantha Evans

    Darwin and Women: the story of Amy and Elizabeth

    In this blog post Samantha Evans, editor of Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters, looks at the lives of some of the women surrounding Darwin.

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  • 19 Nov 2016
    Susan Wolfson

    Keats Wrought up to Writing

    Keats' sonnet ''Great Spirits'' was written 200 years ago in 1816. We're celebrating this 200th anniversary with a blog post written by Susan Wolfson, author of Reading John Keats.

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  • 26 Oct 2016
    Susan Wolfson

    On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

    Two-hundred years ago, in October 1816 … . . . a brilliant young medical student, trained at Guys Hospital in London, aced his apothecary examination (apothecaries were basic practitioners).  Notwithstanding this success, John Keats, who had already been writing poetry and had published one poem (a sonnet on solitude) in Leigh Hunt’s progressive weekly newspaper, […]

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  • 25 Oct 2016
    Deirdre Osborne

    In All British Interests

    Deirdre Osborne, editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature, explores the legacy of Black History Month and the current state of Black and Asian writing in Britain.

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  • 21 Sep 2016
    Andrew Smith

    Some thoughts on assembling a creature: editing The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein.

    Assembling The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein raised some interesting questions at the developmental stage about the type of coverage that students would find helpful. Frankenstein is a novel that is taught in a variety of contexts and courses, including modules on Romanticism, the Gothic, science fiction and gender studies, amongst many others.  It is also […]

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