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Shelley King received is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University, Canada, where she teaches courses in Romantic and Victorian British Literature and in the History of Children's Literature. In addition to co-editing (with John B. Pierce) Opie's Adeline Mowbray (1999) and The Father and Daughter (2003), she has published articles on Opie's poetry in journals including Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism on the Net. She has also published on contemporary author Phillip Pullman in Children's Literature and is currently completing a monograph on his work. John B. Pierce is Professor of English at Queen's University, Canada. He teaches courses in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism. Before embarking on the study of Opie and Romantic Women Writers, he specialized in the works of William Blake, publishing two monographs--The Wondrous Art: William Blake and Writing (2003) and Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas (1998)--as well as articles on Blake, Shelley, and Richardson.
Offers an energising alternative perspective on the shaping of the national culture and the wider role of the creative arts in public life at this period. Times Higher Education Supplement the most up-to-date and factually correct account of Opie's life currently in print ... an edition that provides a model as to how the works of women Romantic poets should be treated. Duncan Wu, Notes and Queries A major achievement... an invaluable resource Choice
