Acknowledgements

This course was written by Professor Bob Owens.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

Course image: Jens Schott Knudsen [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence.

Figure 2: title-page of an eight-page chapbook version of Robinson Crusoe [c.1750] Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale.

Figure 3: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838). Portrait from an original painting by Maclise, British Library

Figure 4: Little boy reading a book, by William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) © National Portrait Gallery

Figure 5: Sir (Henry) Rider Haggard by George Charles Beresford, 1902, National Portrait Gallery

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