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This book owes its existence to three remarkable women: Sara Maitland, Michèle Roberts, and my PhD supervisor Heather Walton. I am deeply grateful to Sara and Michèle for their writing, which has been such a fruitful area of research, and in which I still take great pleasure in reading. I would also like to thank Sara for her interest in my work, her hospitality, and conversation when I visited her in Galloway. I am indebted to Heather’s groundbreaking work on literature, feminism, and theology, but I want to thank her most of all for overseeing my doctoral project: I could not have wished for a better student-supervisor relationship.

Special thanks also goes to David Jasper and Nicola Slee, my doctoral examiners, who provided insightful critique as well as support that has continued long after the viva.

Others to whom I owe my thanks are:

Conversation-partners, readers, and friends: Alana Vincent, Dawn Llewellyn, Elizabeth Anderson, Jennifer Reek, and Mark Godin.

Those who gave of their time and attention to proofread earlier versions of this text: Andrew Macdonell, Jamie Heit, Katie Nail, Michael Mooney, and Robert Viney.

My inspiring, infuriating, and much loved siblings: Bethan Fisk, Sam Fisk, and Thomas Fisk.

The family and friends whose love and generous financial and practical support this book could not have been written without: Pip Fisk, Colin and Ethel Hasler, Peter Fisk, Carol Fisk, and Chris Pout.

Those who over the years have been there during the hardest times: Andrea Baildon, Jaime Grier, Lauren Probert, Maddy Hughes, and Sequoia Taylor.

Those whose friendship during recent difficult months has enabled the completion of this text: Agnes Marszalek, Antje Karl, and Robin Davis.

With tongue only ever so slightly in cheek, the last shout-out goes to Alyosha.