Claire Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She recently, with Ingrid Horrocks, edited Charlotte Smith: Major Poetic Works (Broadview, 2017) and she is the author of numerous articles on Romantic-era women writers. Her book, Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860: The Legacy of Charlotte Smith was published by Ashgate in 2009.