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jacqueline pearson is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists, 1642–1737 (Harvester, 1988), Women's Reading in Britain, 1750–1835: A Dangerous Recreation (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and other books and numerous articles, especially on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers including Aemilia Lanyer, Aphra Behn, Susanna Centlivre, and Maria Edgeworth. More recently, she has been working on narratives of the supernatural in early modern England and has published on the “possession” of Joan Drake (Prose Studies), on reading and the supernatural in the seventeenth century (Women's Writing), and on reading between the lines in narratives of the supernatural (Seventeenth Century).