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  • Contributors

Anthea Trodd is Senior Lecturer in English and Director of the Victorian Studies Centre at Keele University, and author of Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel (1989) and Women’s Writing in English: Britain 1900–45 (1998). She is currently working with John Bowen and Deborah Wynne on a book on the collaborations of Dickens and Collins, and their shared enthusiasm for nautical writing and the theater.

Angelique Richardson is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She is co-editor of The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms (Macmillan, 2000) and is completing a study of heredity and eugenic thought in late-nineteenth-century culture, The Eugenization of Love: Darwin, Galton and New Woman Fictions of Heredity and Eugenics (Oxford, forthcoming). She is also writing New Woman Fiction (Northcote House) and editing a collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century short stories, The Dissent of Woman.

Alison Booth, Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992), and editor of Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (1993); her articles on gender and narrative have appeared in Kenyon Review, Victorian Studies, and elsewhere. This article forms part of her forthcoming book, “How to Make It as a Woman: Role Model Biography from Victoria to the Present.”

Margaret Stetz, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Georgetown University, and Mark Samuels Lasner, President of the William Morris Society in the United States, have published numerous works on the Beardsley period, both separately and jointly. Among these are Stetz’s forthcoming study of “George Egerton” for the monograph series of the Eighteen-Nineties Society and Samuels Lasner’s A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley (1995), as well as their catalogue, The Yellow Book: A Centenary Exhibition (1994) and their A Bibliography of Enoch Soames (1999).

Flavia Alaya, Professor of Literature and Cultural History at Ramapo College of New Jersey, is author of William Sharp—Fiona Macleod (Harvard, 1970). Her studies in Victorian and turn-of-the-century Anglo-American and Anglo-Italian culture have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Under the Rose, a memoir of her life as a scholar/activist, has just been published in the Cross-Cultural Memoir Series of the Feminist Press.

Gordon Bigelow is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is currently working on a book called “Producing the Consumer: Political Economy, Ireland, and the Early Victorian Social Novel,” a portion of which will appear in a forthcoming issue of ELH.

Muriel E. Chamberlain, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is Professor Emeritus of History, having recently retired from the headship of the History Department at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her books include Lord Aberdeen: A Political Biography (1983); Lord Palmerston (1987); Pax Britannica: British Foreign Policy, 1789–1914 (1988); and the Longman Companion to European Decolonisation (1998). She is the Editor of The Historian, the journal of the British Historical Association; Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford); and President of the Canadian Studies in Wales Group.

William A. Cohen, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, published Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction in 1996. His current work is on social, psychological, and material aspects of debasement in Victorian culture.

Ian Duncan, Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English at the University of Oregon, is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (1992) and, most recently, an essay on George Borrow for the special issue of Victorian Studies on “Victorian Ethnographies.” He is completing a book called “Scott’s Shadow: The Cultural Politics of Fiction in Post-Enlightenment Edinburgh.”

Ginger S. Frost is Associate Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She is the author of Promises Broken: Courtship, Class and Gender in Victorian England (Virginia, 1995) and of “Bigamy and Cohabitation in Victorian England,” in the Journal of Family History (1997). She is currently working on a large-scale study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England...

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