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On the Cover is “The Star,” a photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, from The Door in the Wall and Other Stories by H. G. Wells. London: Richards, 1911: 31. Also included is a bowline rope (detail) from a lithograph by C. W. Lewis, from William N. Brady, The Naval Apprentice’s Kedge Anchor; or, Young Sailor’s Assistant. New York: Taylor, 1841: plate 1. On the back are a single whip and an anchor (details) from the same volume, plate 6. All images courtesy of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Changes at VS: With this volume, VS bids farewell to Book Review Editor Jeanette Samyn, who is spending her year on fellowship dissertating in New York City. All of us at VS are doing our best to emulate her cross-reading speediness. Jeanette, the office has been so yang without you around.

Now Book Review Editor, Brian Eschrich divides his time evenly between editing book reviews and attempting to fix the office printer. His dissertation is a cultural and literary study of Victorian philosophy.

Ben Bagocius has stepped into the Assistant Book Review Editor position. He looks forward every morning to watching Molly pour water out of the third-floor window, hopes Brian will remain his book review supervisor forever, and stands in awe before Beth’s capacity to provide reasons other than “ummm . . . it just sounds right” for editing decisions. When not incessantly asking Brian questions about house style, Ben is at work on a dissertation on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century science and sexuality.

This fall we have also had the privilege of working with two excellent undergraduate interns.

Caitlin Crouch is a senior English major and History minor. She is currently writing her honors thesis on the representation of unmarried women in the nineteenth-century marriage plot novel. She would like to thank the staff at VS for the opportunity to be involved in this unique and highly intellectual pocket of the exciting publishing world. She would also like to thank the staff for accepting, or at least not openly laughing at, her habit of blatantly eavesdropping on their conversations about literature, proper grammar, and the pleasures and trials of graduate school.

Emily Richart will be graduating from IU in May with degrees in English/ Creative Writing and Human Biology. She looks forward to a future teaching and writing fiction, but realizes that she will always be in danger of slipping into cross-reading mode when reading out loud. Stop. She would like to thank her “advisors” Beth, Molly, Ben, and Brian for creating such a wonderful internship experience, and for providing much-appreciated insight into the world of graduate studies.

As always, Victorian Studies thanks the Indiana University Honors College, without whose generous support our internship program would not be possible.