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The Cowper and Newton Journal
Issue 1, 2011

List of Contributors

Neil Curry is both poet and critic. His new and selected poems, Other Rooms, is published by Enitharmon Press. He has published studies of Christopher Smart, Alexander Pope and George Herbert and later this year will see the publication of his Six Eighteenth-Century Poets (Thomson, Johnson, Collins, Gray, Smart and Goldsmith). He is at present working on a full-length study of Cowper's poetry.

David Frean worked for Vickers Armstrong and was Spitfire Mitchell Memorial Scholar. He has moved from engineering to management to management development - the topic of his PhD. David is an amateur bookbinder in his retirement and has served on the Council of The Society of Bookbinders. He collects early editions of William Cowper's works and lives in Lichfield.

Bill Hutchings is the author of The Poetry of William Cowper (1983), and has written on other eighteenth-century writers including Thomas Gray, Henry Fielding and James Thomson. His most recent publication is an essay in William Collins: Poet. 1721-59 (2009). He has also written and lectured extensively on the teaching of literature. His Living Poetry will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.

Vincent Newey is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Leicester. His publications include Cowper's Poetry: A Critical Study and Reassessment (1982) and The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self (2004). He is a Vice-President of the International Byron Society. His current research concerns the influence of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress on Victorian literature.

Simon Parkes works at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent research has focused on literary depictions of war veterans in the late eighteenth century, with a particular interest in spectrality and the threat of contagious violence; he is currently absorbed in considering representations of the disabled veteran in nineteenth-century British culture.

Tony Seward became a Trustee of The Cowper and Newton Museum in 1996, and was Chair for five years. After retirement from a career in book and journal publishing, he gained an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester and led the museum's Lottery-funded redevelopment programme. He has recently moved from the banks of 'slow-winding' Ouse to rugged Teesdale.

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