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Mary Tighe's
This edition contains a comprehensive introduction by the editor, a fully annotated and searchable transcription of the manuscript, and digital images of the manuscript pages, made available through the kind courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. The transcription follows the manuscript faithfully in all instances but one: correcting the manuscript's spelling of "ere" from "e're."
Harriet Kramer Linkin is a Distinguished Professor of English at New Mexico State University, where she teaches courses in British Romanticism and women's literature. She has published widely on Romantic-era writers (particularly William Blake and Mary Tighe) and is the editor of the first edition of
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