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“... with considerable force that there really were some giants at that time and in those places. Judith Chernaik writes about the sad life and death of Karl Marx’s daughter Eleanor, or Tussy. A work that features Engels, Bernard Shaw, Olive Schreiner and Havelock Ellis among the dramatis personae might seem doomed to go the way of Brown’s ...”

“... way back in 1978. I went with three fellow Shelleyans, Geoffrey Matthews, Claire Tomalin and Judith Chernaik, to hear Marion Stocking talk about Claire. Marion Stocking’s beautifully-edited Journals of Claire Clairmont had just come out, and she knew more about Claire than all the brains of the Byron Society put together. This did not stop those ...”

“... bombs aren’t such a huge joke any more.’ The main session over, we were offered Judith Chernaik on Shelley’s feminism or Elma Dangerfield on Byron and Shelley or Marilyn Butler on the background to the politics of the Romantic poets. I had heard Judith a few times before, and reckoned Elma ...”

“... voice also supplies the centrepiece, a British Rail poem that will not, I imagine, be selected by Judith Chernaik for the London Underground:The buffet carriage lurches side to sidecausing a democratic crocodile(Financial Timeses, Suns, a TESspinsterly, oil-rig drunk, a see-through blouse,two Sikhs, a briefcased First Class parvenu)to jig like salts on ...”