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Introducing the editors
Michael Ayton has worked as an editor since 1983, and since 1991 as a part-time lecturer in English literature at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Newcastle. He has worked for numerous publishers, including Cassell, Sage and Oxford University Press, as well as for a range of other employers, specialising in literature and the social sciences. He is resident editor at the Newcastle Centre for Family Studies, University of Newcastle.
John Metson has a PhD in English, and has taught English literature at Durham, Teesside and Sunderland Universities, as well as English language and literature in the Arab universities in the West Bank, where he lived from 1981 to 1984. He has been a copy editor since 1994, and has worked for clients from all over the world, specialising in editing texts by Arab writers.
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My impression is that you have completed this task with skill and sensitivity. In almost every case I have either confirmed your suggested improvement or amended the text myself so as to eliminate the problems or ambiguities you noted. ¼ I ¼ join with my fellow-editor in thanking you very warmly for your meticulous work.
(Marion Shaw on the editing of her Tennyson, Harvester Press, UK)
Telephone: 0191 384 9406 - Michael Ayton
Address: 9 Summerville, Durham DH1 4QH, UK
E-mail: michael.ayton@voro.fsnet.co.uk
Telephone: 0191 384 5170 - John Metson
Address: 7 Sidegate, Durham DH1 5SY, UK
E-mail: john.metson@dsl.pipex.com