VALERIE PURTON is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of A Coleridge Chronology (1993) and (with Christopher Sturman) of Poems by Two Brothers (1993). She has also edited Dickens's Dombey and Son (1996) and Landscape and Friendship (2000).

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