Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book has been a saga punctuated by the years I spent chairing the Research Initiative for the Study of Diversity, the most fulfilling and challenging endeavor of my career. As a final salute to it, I dedicate this book to Nels Madsen, comrade-in-arms and generous spirit. Writing the book was also punctuated by my winning the MLA Lowell Prize and, for the second time, Auburn University’s Creative Research Award. I dedicated those awards to my husband Nick for, as with all my books, his steady support, sense of humor, and willingness to accompany me on research trips to London make what I do possible.

The years my books have taken to write are always measured in the wonderful research assistants I’ve had. Benjamin Arnberg, Pamela Frank, Elizabeth Kent, Ashley Sandlin, Lacey Williams, and especially Lacy Marshalk and Ciara Smith have endlessly run down research materials, checked sources, proofread, and worked on the bibliography. I am grateful to them for their careful work and for their cheerful and engaged presences in my office.

Special thanks to Elizabeth Childs, who once again shared the final preparation of a manuscript with me, to Anya Bertolet, who shared her knowledge of reading portraits, to Devoney Looser, who gave generous advice on the Bluestockings, to Melanie Bigold and Sarah Prescott, who corresponded about Rowe’s letters, and to Anna Battigelli, who has a gift for keeping me from giving up on a book project. Others who have answered random queries, given advice, or encouraged me are Norma Clarke, Joyce De Vries, Stephen Henderson, Susana Morris, Felicia Sturzer, Felicity Nussbaum, Robin Sabino, Penny Ingram, Toni Bowers, Catherine Ingrassia, and James Winn.