Hugh Adlington is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham where he teaches English Literature across all periods and genres. He is editor (with Peter McCullough and Emma Rhatigan) of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (2011) and editor (with Tom Lockwood and Gillian Wright) of Chaplains in Early Modern England: Literature, Patronage and Religion (2013). He is editing volume 2 of the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, and is writing a monograph, John Donne’s Books: Reading, Writing, and the Uses of Knowledge.

• ContentsAcknowledgements ixBiographical Outline xiAbbreviations and References xiiiIntroduction 11 Critical Writing 92 Biographies 21Edward Burne-Jones 22The Knox Brothers 26Charlotte Mew and Her Friends 323 Early Novels 36The Golden Child 37The Bookshop 42Offshore 48Human Voices 54At Freddie’s 604 Late Novels 67Innocence 69The Beginning of Spring 78The Gate of Angels 87The Blue Flower 935 Short Stories, Poems, Letters 1016 Reputation and Influence 113Appendix: Uncollected and Unattributed Poems 118Notes 120Select Bibliography 132Index 143

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