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Jill Franks Author, Translator & Editor

Jill Franks is a film studies and English literature professor at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Sea and Sardinia cover

Sea and Sardinia

3 authors - Paperback

£10.99

The Poetry of Thom Gunn cover

The Poetry of Thom Gunn

Stefania Michelucci - Paperback

£28.99

Space and Place in the Works of D.H. Lawrence cover

Space and Place in the Works of D.H. Lawrence

Stefania Michelucci - Paperback

£28.99

Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin cover

Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin

Jill Franks - Paperback

£28.99

Every Stranger a God cover

Every Stranger a God

Jill Franks - Paperback

£15.00

Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel cover

Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel

Jill Franks - Paperback

£21.99

British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement cover

British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement

Jill Franks - Paperback

£28.99