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Paul Fyfe is Assistant Professor of English and History of Text Technologies at Florida State University. His current book project, By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis, demonstrates how accidents became a structuring feature of the representation of nineteenth-century cities as well as the signature forms of writing about them.

Ann M. Hale is a graduate student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. In addition, she serves as managing editor of American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. She also has a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School. Her current research interests include villainesses in fin de siècle detective fiction and general-audience periodicals as sources of legal information and advice.

Jamie Horrocks is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Her work has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and Nineteenth-Century Prose. She is currently working on a manuscript on Vernon Lee and late Victorian aestheticism.

Louis James has divided his academic life between postcolonial and Victorian studies. His publications include Fiction for the Working Man 1830–50 (1963), Caribbean Writing in English (1999), The Victorian Novel (2006), and, edited with Anne Humpherys, G. W. M. Reynolds: Nineteenth Century Fiction, Politics and the Press (2008). He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, England. [End Page 155]

Jude Piesse recently completed her AHRC-funded doctoral work at the University of Exeter. Her doctoral thesis explores how mass settler emigration from Britain was registered and mediated in the Victorian periodical press. She has taught at both the University of Exeter and the Open University, and was also recently awarded an AHRC British Research Council Fellowship to spend three months working at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress.

Solveig C. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Publishing and Printing Arts Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She is the author of a number of articles on Victorian publishing history, the editor of A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview, 2003), and the author of the forthcoming The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture (Broad-view).

Matt Salyer teaches in the Department of Humanities at the United States Coast Guard Academy. His research interests include Anglo-American Romanticism, the historical novel, and the growth of the British Empire. He is the proud father of two daughters.

Madelyn Travis is a postdoctoral research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and Associate Lecturer in Children’s Literature at the Open University. She is the author of Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature. [End Page 156]

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