Jennifer Ingleheart - Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education

It is a great pleasure to thank the many people who have helped me in the researching and writing of this book. I was first introduced to Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge by my Durham colleague Peter Heslin while I was working on the reception of Rome in Victorian erotica. Peter suggested that I might find an interesting topic in Bainbrigges private writings, and I am very grateful indeed to him for this suggestion, and for commenting perceptively on early drafts of some of this material. A number of current/former Durham colleaguesGeorge Boys-Stones, Phillip Horky, Luke Pitcher, and Ed Richardsonalso read some or all of my earlier drafts, and their learned and kind comments have been invaluable to me; I am most grateful to them for sharing their knowledge and time.

Chris Stray, too, has commented on an earlier draft, and patiently answered many queries from me; this book has been much improved by his generous sharing of his expertise and insights, and I owe him many thanks. I would also like to thank Peter Parker, who kindly answered my questions about the Edinburgh Production of Achilles in Scyros, and even more generously commented on a late draft of the entire manuscript.

I am most grateful to Jean Findlay for sharing with me, at a crucial stage in my project, materials she holds on Bainbrigge and Scott Moncrieff, and responding to various queries. My heartfelt thanks are also due to Liam Sims of Cambridge University Library, who has shared with me his invaluable expertise (particularly on A. T. Bartholomew and the Arc. collection), and made extremely helpful comments on drafts at various stages in this project. I would also like to thank for their help with archival research the following curators, librarians, and archivists: Jonathan Smith of Trinity College, Cambridge; Eleanor Cracknell and Roddy Fisher of Eton College; Robin Brooke-Smith and Mike Morrogh of Shrewsbury School; Suzanne Foster of Winchester College; Catherine Smith of Charterhouse; Anna Sanders of Balliol College, Oxford; Mark Bainbridge of Worcester College, Oxford.

My thanks are also due to the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, for awarding me a 201617 Research Fellowship in the Humanities, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment. This enabled me to carry out crucial archival work on Scott Moncrieffs letters to Vyvyan Holland.

Audiences at seminars at Durham Universitys Department of Classics and Ancient History and at St. Andrews made helpful comments on earlier drafts of chapters from this volume, as did audiences at the LGBT History Month festivals in 2016 at Shrewsbury and Newcastle.

At Oxford University Press, Lorna Hardwick, James Porter, and Charlotte Loveridge have been unfailingly helpful and supportive of this project. The Readers for the Press have also helped to improve this volume in many ways, and I am most grateful to them for their suggestions. My thanks are also due to my copy editor, Donald Watt.

I also owe thanks for contributions of various kinds to: Maggie Asquith, Aelred Baker, Alan Beale, Alastair Blanshard, Edward Bragg, Timothy dArch Smith, Claire Davenport, the late Peter Derow, Anabel Farrell, Peta Fowler, Henry Hardy, Alison Hennegan, Charlotte Heppell, Merlin Holland, Lucy Hughes, Scott Jacobs, Patricia McGuire, Peter Monteith, Fiona Mynors, Bill Naquin, Harriet Patrick, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Julian Reid, Peter Roscoe, Philippa Seale, Jennifer Thorp, Crispin Tickell, Peter Wilkes, and Mark Woolmer.

Finally, I would like to thank my wife Wendy and our son Rufus for their help, support, and love while I was engaged on this project.

Jennifer Ingleheart

Durham

12 December 2017