Special thanks to Racquel Buchanan for her generous translation of sections of the text into German, and to Mimo El-Khoury for her translation of Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ into Arabic. Thanks also to Ingrid Almarker for her advice on fashion and design. I would also like to express my gratitude to Mandy Brett for the maturity and acuity of her editorial interventions.