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The Cowper and Newton Journal
Published by the Trustees of The Cowper and Newton Museum, Orchard Side, Olney, Milton Keynes, MK46 4AJ, with the support of the Friends of the Museum.
The Cowper and Newton Journal is published once a year and is distributed to all Friends of the Museum. A subscription to the Journal automatically includes Friends membership. The subscription rates for 2011/12 are: in the UK £6 for individual and £10 for joint membership; overseas £12. In all categories postage is included. If you would like to subscribe please contact the Friends Membership Secretary (below).
Non-subscribers may purchase copies at a price of £5 each by contacting Tony Seward (below).
The Journal invites submissions on any topic related to William Cowper, John Newton and their circle but embraces the wider milieu - literary, artistic, religious, historical, horticultural - of their contemporaries (in effect the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries). In keeping with its museum origins, the Journal's scope also covers material culture: the study of relevant objects from the period and their wider significance.
Each issue of the Journal will contain articles of varying lengths, notes on shorter topics, and reviews (of books, but also of exhibitions, plays, films and other relevant productions or events). The focus will be mainly on scholarly research and criticism in the fields listed above, but it will also take in subjects of more general interest such as local topography, family connections, and reminiscences of people and places.
Submissions should be sent as email attachments (preferably as Word documents) to one of the Joint Editors. It would be helpful if contributors could follow the Style Notes as set out below. The editors reserve the right to make minor changes to work submitted.
Joint Editors
Professor Vincent Newey, Church View Cottage, 54 Main Street, Cosby, Leicester LE9 1UU (tel + 44(0)116 286 7751;
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Tony Seward, 14 London Road, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes MK11 1JL (tel + 44(0)1908 565260;
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Editorial Board
Dr Ashley Chantler (University of Chester), Dr Michael Davies (University of Liverpool), Bill Kelly (Friends/ Production), Elizabeth Knight (Museum Trustee), Professor Bob Owens (Open University), Laura E. Ralph (Trinity Western University, Canada).
Friends Membership Secretary
Mrs Ann Walker, c/o The Cowper and Newton Museum, address as above, tel + 44 (0) 1234 711516;
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Copyright © The Trustees of The Cowper and Newton Museum. All rights reserved.
Style Notes
Quotation marks and quoted matter
Please use single quotation marks (double inside single if you have a quotation within a quotation). Quotation marks should go inside punctuation, except where the punctuation belongs to the quotation. If you quote a fairly lengthy piece (five lines or more) please start the quotation on a new line, without quotation marks (in this case any quotation within the quotation should have single quotation marks), and indent throughout. Square brackets should be used to indicate any insertions of your own in quoted matter. In quoted matter, you should preserve the style and spelling of the original. Any omissions from the original should be indicated by no more than three dots (...), plus a fourth if the omission falls at the end of a sentence.
Hyphens
When in doubt, omit hyphens. Where two words are combined to form a compound adjective, however, they should generally be joined by a hyphen ('a well-known fact', 'a grief-stricken widow', 'a nineteenth-century poet').
Italics
Use italics in the following ways:
a. for emphasis;
b. for titles of books, newspapers, magazines, journals, plays, films, operas and names of ships (HMS Bellerophon's crew). The titles of songs, single poems not published as separate volumes, paintings, sculptures, magazine articles or the chapters of a book are set in roman and in quotation marks ('The Castaway');
c. do not italicise foreign proper names.
Capitals
Keep capitals to a minimum, even in headings and subheadings, and be consistent. In general, only proper names and the first words of sentences and headings should be capitalised.
Numerals
Please spell out numbers up to and including ten except in text with a statistical content, where numerals are acceptable from '2' onwards. Use arabic numerals for '11' onwards except at the beginning of a sentence. If millions happen frequently, '£24m.' may be preferable to '£24,000,000'.
Dates
To be set out thus: 6 November 1793.
Spans of years are to be given as briefly as is consistent with clarity: 1970-71; 1871-2; 2000-2001; 2001-6; 2011-12.
Centuries should be written in full ('eighteenth century'); decades as '1780s' without apostrophe.
Abbreviations
No full stops after contractions (Dr, Mrs, St, Ltd) nor in familiar sets of initials (USA, BBC, MP). But please use full stops after abbreviations (Prof., e.g., i.e., max., etc.).
Spelling
The -ise convention is preferred (organise, organisation).
Footnotes
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum, and indicated by superscript numerals in the text.
References and Bibliographies
For citations in text, and for listing of works in bibliographies and alphabetical references, the preferred style is that set out in the MHRA Style Guide (http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml), but other styles are acceptable as long as they are used consistently within articles.Ê
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