Susan Civale is Reader in Romanticism at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her research interests lie in women’s writing of the long nineteenth-century, life writing, gothic literature and literary afterlives. Her monograph Romantic Women’s Life Writing: Reputation and Afterlife (Manchester University Press, 2019) considers how the publication of women’s ‘private lives’, through diaries, auto/biographies, letters and memoirs, influenced their literary reputations. She is now writing a book on Mary Shelley as a popular author.

Claire Sheridan is an independent scholar based in south-east London. She has taught at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University. She is the author of articles on William Hazlitt, Mary Shelley, William Godwin and Alan Moore, among others. Her research interests include the influence of William Godwin’s ‘philosophical gothic’ on later gothic writers, and the various communities (of readers, writers, characters and makers) associated with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She co-ran the Romantic Novels 1817 and 1818 seminar series with Susan Civale.

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