Notes on Contributors

Paul Baines is Professor of eighteenth-century literature in the Department of English, University of Liverpool. Among his publications are: The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999); The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope (2000); Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 (edited with Edward Burns, 2000); Edmund Curll, Bookseller (with Pat Rogers, 2007); The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789 (with Pat Rogers and Julian Ferraro, 2011); and The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton, 1756-1814 (2014).

John Batchelor is an Emeritus Professor of Newcastle University and a former Fellow of New College, Oxford. His earliest book was a brief life of the fantasist and illustrator Mervyn Peake, and his later books include biographies of Conrad, Ruskin, and Tennyson, and also of Ruskin's closest woman friend, Pauline, Lady Trevelyan. He has also published monographs on Virginia Woolf and H.G. Wells, a literary history, The Edwardian Novelists, and an edited volume on The Art of Literary Biography. He lives in Oxford, where he continues his academic affiliation with New College.

Anna Beer is a biographer and literary critic. She was University Lecturer in Literature at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford, between 2003 and 2010, and remains a Fellow of Kellogg College and Senior Course Tutor in Creative Writing at Oxford. She is the author of the first Life of the wife of Sir Walter Ralegh, Bess, and a biography of John Milton (Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot), both discussed in her chapter. More recently, she has written a feminist study of eight female composers written for non-specialists. The book was given the title Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music by its publishers, much to its author's dismay. She has just finished a new biography of Sir Walter Ralegh, which will not be called Walter.

Emily Bell specializes in Charles Dickens and life writing, having completed her PhD on "Changing Representations of Charles Dickens, 1857-1939" at the University of York in 2017. She has published on "A Lost Autobiographical Sketch" in Wilkie Collins Journal, 14 (2017) and on "The Dickens Family, the Boz Club and the Fellowship" in Dickensian, 502.113.3 (2017). She is editing Dickens After Dickens, a volume of collected essays on Dickens criticism and biography.

Richard Bradford is Research Professor at Ulster University. He has published more than 30 books, including trade-published biographies of Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Martin Amis, John Milton, and Ernest Hemingway. Prior to Ulster he held posts in Oxford, Wales, and Trinity College, Dublin. Presently he is Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon.

Jane Darcy was awarded a PhD from King's College London in 2009 for her thesis on the interaction of melancholy and literary biography in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 2010 she received British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, moving to the English Department of University College where she now holds an honorary lectureship. Her monograph Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 was published by Palgrave in 2013. She has also written articles on Samuel Johnson, William Cowper, and Jane Austen. She is now a teaching fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at King's College London and is currently writing a book on Jane Austen and melancholy.

Claire Davison is Professor of Modernist Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, where her teaching and research focus on intermedial borders and the boundaries of modernism: the translation and reception of Russian literature in the 1910s to 1920s; literary and musical modernism; modernist soundscapes and broadcasting. She is the author of Translation as Collaboration-Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and S.S. Koteliansky (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and the co-editor (with Gerri Kimber) of a number of recent volumes on literary modernism, including the fourth volume of The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, in Four Volumes (Edinburgh University Press, 2012-2016) and The Collected Poetry of Katherine Mansfield (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Kevin De Ornellas lectures on English Renaissance literature at Ulster University. His acclaimed book, The Horse in Early Modern English Culture, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2014. He has published widely on many aspects of drama of Shakespeare's period. He is the principal pre-show speaker and a member of the Management Committee of the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine.

Rebecca Devine is a PhD student at the University of Hull. She is currently studying the work of Philip Larkin, focusing intensely on his private letters. She completed her BA and MA in English Literature at Ulster University.

Kay Ferres is Professor Emerita of literature and history at Griffith University, Australia. She has published on Australian writers, modernism, and biography. She is currently working on a group biography of the Australian writers Nettie Palmer and Katherine Susannah Prichard and their friend Hilda Esson, The Life of Houses.

Madelena Gonzalez is Professor of Anglophone Literature at the University of Avignon and head of the multidisciplinary research group ICTT. She has published widely on Anglophone literature and culture and is author of Fiction after the Fatwa: Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe (Rodopi, 2004).

Tim Hancock is an English Lecturer at Ulster University. Recent publications include articles on T S Eliot, John Betjeman and Seamus Heaney; his most recent presentation was to the conference ''Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words and Fragments'' (Belfast, November, 2017).

Craig Howes is Director of the Center for Biographical Rsearch, Co-Editor of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, and Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He co-edited Teaching Life Writing Texts (MLA, 2007, with Miriam Fuchs), and is the author of Voices of the Vietnam POWs (Oxford University Press, 1993).

Andrew James is a Professor in the School of Commerce at Meiji University in Tokyo. He completed a doctorate in English literature at the University of Ulster and has published essays on literary theory, Kingsley Amis, Graham Swift, and Frederick Philip Grove. His monograph, Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience (McGill-Queen's University Press), appeared in June 2013. He was the recipient of a three-year Grant-in-Aid of Scholarly Research from the Japanese government in support of a project to study the manuscripts in the British Library's Graham Swift Archive. Within the field of archival studies he has particular interest in the role of draft revisions in the creative process.

Jan Jedrzejewski is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Ulster. A specialist in Victorian literature, Irish literature in English, and Anglo-Polish literary relations, he has published Thomas Hardy and the Church (Palgrave, 1996), George Eliot (Routledge, 2007), and critical editions of works by Le Fanu and Hardy.

Andrew Keanie is a lecturer at Ulster University. He has written books, articles, reviews, and book chapters on several of the writers of the English Romantic era. He is a poet and musician, and lives in Derry with his wife and near his grown-up daughter.

Thomas Lockwood is Professor Emeritus of English and former department chair at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the editor of the drama volumes of the Oxford "Wesleyan" edition of the works of Henry Fielding and is completing a biography of Jonathan Swift for the Blackwell Critical Biographies series.

Paul K. Lyons is an independent journalist and writer. He is the creator and curator of three diary-based websites: The Diary Review (articles on diaries and diarists); And so made significant . (an extensive online diary anthology); and The Diary Junction (a database of diarists). He is the author of Brighton in Diaries, and has kept a diary regularly since childhood.

John McCourt is Professor of English literature at the Università di Macerata, Italy. He is a specialist in Joyce Studies and in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish literature. The co-founder of the Trieste Joyce School (1997), he is widely published and best known for James Joyce: A Passionate Exile (Orion Books, 2000) and The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 (Lilliput Press, 2000). His most recent book is Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Jane McVeigh is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English & Creative Writing, University of Roehampton, and Associate Lecturer for the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. Her publications include In Collaboration with British Literary Biography: Haunting Conversations (Palgrave, 2017).

Linda M. Morra is Professor of Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies at Bishop's...