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Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature: 4. Old English Prose of Secular Learning. By Stephanie Hollis and Michael Wright, with Gwynneth Mills and Adrienne Pedder. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer. 1992. xii + 383 pp., followed by 21 pages of indices, un‐paginated. Price: £35.00. Anglo‐Saxon Exeter: A Tenth‐Century Cultural History, Studies in Anglo‐Saxon History, 4. By Patrick W. Conner. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press. 1993. xii + 279 pp. Price: £45.00. Chaucer and his Readers: Imagining the Author in Late‐medieval England. By Seth Lerer. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1993. 309 pp. Price: US $39.50. Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius (Chaucer Studies 18). Edited by A.J. Minnis. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 1993. x + 203 pp. Price: £39.50. The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist VIII: Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries. Edited by S.J. Ogilvie‐Thomson. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 1991. xxix + 198 pp. Price: £35.00/$70.00. William Caxton and English Literary Culture. By N.F. Blake. London and Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press. 1991. xi + 315 pp. Price: £35.00. Shakespeare Reshaped 1606–1623. By Gary Taylor and John Jowett. Oxford Shakespeare Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1993. xi + 333 pp. Price: £40.00. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Volume III: 1700–1800. Part 3: Alexander Pope — Sir Richard Steele. With a first‐line index to Parts 1–3. Edited by Margaret M. Smith and Alexander Lindsay. London: Mansell. 1992. Price: £170.00. Pope, Homer and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth‐Century Classical Learning. By Carolyn D. Williams. London/New York: Routledge. 1993. 220 pp. Price: £37.50. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. By Joanne Shattock. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1993. ix + 492 pp. Price: £19.95. Language, Text and Context; Essays in Stylistics. Edited by Michael Toolan. London and New York: Routledge. 1992. xv + 320 pp. Price: £12.99 pb.