About the Author

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The late D.L. Macdonald was a Professor of English at the University of Calgary. He was the author of Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of "The Vampyre" (University of Toronto Press, 1991) and Monk Lewis: A Critical Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2000). Kathleen Scherf is Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She is the editor of Collected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (University of British Columbia Press, 1992). Together they are the editors of the Broadview editions of Mary Wollstonecraft's The Vindications (1997) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1999).