Author: Janet Mary Mellor Robert Ignatius Letellier

Robert Ignatius Letellier was educated in Grahamstown, Cambridge, Salzburg, Rome and Jerusalem. He is a member of Trinity College Cambridge, the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, and the Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall, Cambridge. His has over 90 publications to his credit, including books and articles on the early and Romantic novel (particularly the Gothic novel and Sir Walter Scott), the Bible (the Abraham Cycle, the Covenant, homiletics), and European culture. He has specialised in the Romantic opera, especially the work of Giacomo Meyerbeer, and has written on Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, the opéra-comique, the operetta, Ludwig Minkus and nineteenth-century ballet. He has also worked as a consultant for the BBC, the Royal Opera House, Naxos International, and Marston Records. Janet Mary Mellor studied Modern Languages at Durham University, and has had a long career in secondary school teaching, as well as working in teacher training at Sheffield University and as Director of the Post-Graduate Teacher Training course at the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham. She has Master”s degrees in Education and in RE and Catechesis. She is currently working with the Archdiocese of Birmingham in school inspection and as a school governor. She has had a life-time interest in religious art which has developed through travel and research.