Margaret Kean is the Dame Helen Gardner Fellow in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She lectures on early modern literature (Shakespeare, Milton, etc) and has published on John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Recent research interests include Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials. She is currently completing a history of hell from the time of the Egyptians up to the present day.
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Zoe Williams, columnist, Guardian; author, What Not to Expect When You're Expecting
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