Marina Warner

Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism, and history. Her award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, From the Beast to the Blonde, and No Go the Bogeyman. In 2006 she published Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media, a study of ghosts, phantasms, and technology. Her most recent work of fiction is the novel The Leto Bundle. A Fellow of the British Academy, she is also Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.

The Lore And Language Of Schoolchildren By Iona and Peter Opie Introduction by Marina Warner The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Category: Essays, Criticism and Philosophy Publisher: NYRB Classics

The Secret Commonwealth By Robert Kirk Introduction by Marina Warner The legendary chronicle of the supernatural that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott. Category: Current Affairs and Politics, History Publisher: NYRB Classics