The following essays have been specially commissioned to highlight key research themes and topics. 

Seventeenth-Century Material in the Brotherton Collection Manuscripts

Professor Paul Hammond, Department of English, University of Leeds

Clandestine Satire in the Brotherton Collection

Harold Love, Emeritus Professor in the School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, Monash University

Critical Reading and the Brotherton Poetry Manuscripts

Professor Nigel Smith, Department of English, Princeton University

From Manuscript to Print and Back Again: Two Verse Miscellanies by Eighteenth-Century Women

Dr Laura Runge, Department of English, University of South Florida