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Patrick C. Fleming is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Rollins College. He edited the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine for the Rossetti Archive while completing his PhD at the University of Virginia. He studies Romantic and Victorian literature, the history of the novel, and children's literature. His current project explores the narrative structures of Romantic-era children's tales; articles based on this project are forthcoming in the Journal of Narrative Theory and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Sarah Gracombe is Associate Professor of Victorian Literature at Stonehill College. In 2010-11, she was a fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Her work has appeared in journals such as Nineteenth-Century Literature, Prooftexts, and Literature Compass, and she is currently working on a manuscript entitled Novel Converts: Cultural Englishness and Victorian Jewishness.

Andrew Hobbs is a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2009, his essay on the provincial press was published in the International Journal of Regional and Local Studies, and he is an associate editor of the online Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism.

Clare Horrocks is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, and Communication at Liverpool John Moores University, where she is the convenor of the Victorian Print and Popular Culture seminar series. She has published widely on Punch and the Victorian periodical press, including an article with Gary Simons for Victorians Journal (Winter 2011): "From Paris to Punch: William Makepeace Thackeray and a New Era in Social Satire." [End Page 370]

Katherine Malone is Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage at Temple University. Her research focuses on gender and genre in nineteenth-century literary criticism, and she is completing a book on the role of women critics in Victorian periodicals. Her work on Anne Thackeray Ritchie has appeared in English Literature in Transition (2011).

Beth Rodgers is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University. She completed her PhD at Queen's University Belfast in 2010. Her thesis, "Daughters of Today: Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture, 1880-1906," examined intersecting constructions of female adolescence across the late Victorian literary marketplace. She has published on Victorian girls' magazines, girls' school stories, and the work of the Irish writer L. T. Meade.

Larry K. Uffelman is Professor Emeritus of English at Mansfield University and a long-time member of RSVP. He has contributed to and edited RSVP's recurring checklist of scholarship on periodicals. He has also published on Charles Kingsley's serialized novels and Elizabeth Gaskell's serial fiction.

Marianne Van Remoortel is Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Research Foundation Flanders-FWO) at Ghent University, Belgium. She is the author of Lives of the Sonnet, 1787-1895: Genre, Gender and Criticism (2011). Her current project focuses on women's work and the Victorian periodical press. [End Page 371]

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