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Phyllis Hartnoll was a British poet, author and editor.
Hartnoll studied at the
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, where she won the
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for poetry in 1929. Later she worked as an editor on many
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publications, including the
Oxford Companion to the Theatre. She wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel
ZastrozziZastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P.B.S."...
by
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which was republished in a limited edition by The
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in 1955.
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