Contributors to this Issue
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Hugo Bowles is associate professor of English at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His research interests cover many areas of applied linguistics, including legal English and literary stylistics. He is currently researching shorthand in relation to Dickens's life and work and has recently published articles on the subject in Notes and Queries, The Dickensian and the Dickens Studies Annual. His book Dickens and the Stenographic Mind will shortly be published by Oxford University Press.
Julia Kuehn is Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in Victorian literature and culture, travel writing (related to China) and critical theory. She has published in international journals including Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Review, Studies in Travel Writing, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Writing. Her most recent work is on the fictions and travel writing produced during the First Opium War (including Dickens's and Marryat's), the Dickenses' connections with the Second Opium War and a comparative study of nineteenth-century German and British realist prose.
Brenda Welch (PhD and J.D.) teaches university-level composition and literature courses in the central Texas area. She has been engaged with Dickens's Bleak House since her graduate school days, the result of which has been an ongoing fascination with the novel, Dickens, Bentham and Victorian jurisprudence.
William F. Long is Emeritus Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen. He has published several articles for The Dickensian and Dickens Quarterly and contributed to the Oxford Readers' Companion to Dickens.
Paul Schlicke was Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen until retirement in 2010. His Clarendon edition of Sketches by Boz is preparing for publication. [End Page 3]
"Heads, heads, take care of your heads," cried the loquacious stranger, as they came out under the low archway, which in those days formed the entrance to the coach-yard. "Terrible place–dangerous work–other day five children–mother–tall lady, eating sandwiches–forgot the arch–crash–knock–children look round–mother's head off–sandwich in her hand–no mouth to put it in–head of a family off–shocking, shocking. Looking at Whitehall, Sir,–fine place–little window–somebody else's head off there, eh, Sir? he didn't keep a sharp look-out enough either–eh, sir, eh?"
The Pickwick Papers, chapter 2 [End Page 4]
