Monthly Archives: January 2016

Mary Shelley’s Dundee

As a teenager Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) lived with the Baxter family on South Baffin Street on the outskirts of industrial Dundee, a little while before penning one of the world’s most enduring works of Gothic fiction, Frankenstein (1818). Years later, in an introduction to a new edition of her magnum opus, she acknowledged

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Textual Editing: Twenty-First Century Practice

The Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities and the Universities’ Committee for Scottish Literature would like to announce a series of four workshops to provide doctoral students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature with the knowledge and skills required for the scholarly editing of texts from the period. The afternoon workshops will be held at

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