Katherine Turner: Cowper and Abolition

Dr Katherine Turner is a professor of English at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia. Her main areas of academic interest are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travel writing, women’s writing, and eighteenth-century poetry. She has edited Laurence Sterne’s eighteenth-century novel, A Sentimental Journey (Broadview, 2010) and several volumes of Women’s Court and Society Memoirs in the Chawton House Library Series (Pickering, 2010). She guest-edited the Cowper and Newton Journal in 2018 on the theme of ‘Home and Away’, to which she also contributed an essay on Cowper and the Newspapers.
Music: 'Felicity' by Scott Buckley: www.scottbuckley.com.au