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On the Cover is "Felix Wounded in the Riot," from George Eliot, Felix Holt. 1866. Boston: T. C. Brainard, 1890. Details from the same image appear on the back cover.

Changes at VS: With this issue, VS welcomes the return of co-editor Ivan Kreilkamp after a fellowship year at the University of Texas. Thoroughly rejuvenated by the break, he has attacked his manuscript-laden inbox with vigor.

We also bid farewell to Julie Wise and Ann-Marie Dunbar, who will now devote their full attention to writing dissertations. We'll miss Julie's guiding managerial vision and judicious editing, and the office staff finds itself at sea without Ann-Marie's unparalled grammatical knowledge and her passion for Garner's Modern American Usage. More than this professional expertise, however, we shall miss their kindness, collegiality, and expert cooking skills.

Jason H. Lindquist now functions as Managing Editor, though in his spare time he continues to consider the problem of excess in nineteenth-century tropical narratives. Jamie Horrocks, a student of liberal philosophy and late nineteenth-century aestheticism (especially women's aestheticist writing) joins the staff as Editorial Assistant. This background has allowed her to view her work on the Victorian Bibliography not as a burden, but as an aesthetic engagement.

As incoming Book Review Editor, Nicole M. Mares uses her historian's sense for organization and detail to manage an operation too large and complex for any mere English PhD candidate to comprehend—even as she writes a dissertation on Britons, Boers, and concepts of civilization in the nineteenth century. Joining Nicole is Madeleine Myfanwy Thompson, who brings to her excellent work as Assistant Book Review Editor a sensibility that is equal parts Welsh and Arizonan. After mastering her doctoral exams in the fall she now turns her attention to Victorian editorial practices and collected editions.

We have been fortunate to work with two outstanding editorial interns while producing this issue. Megan O'Neill feels that her experiences with Victorian Studies have been memorable and will likely be valuable to whatever future pursuits she embarks upon. Some of her favorite projects at VS include the Victorian Bibliography—where she experienced extreme overuse of Word's copy and paste icons—and "the shelf," where she learned the art of organization. Above all, she learned to "save," after losing an hour of work in Excel on her second day on the job. She has also discovered that George Eliot is not really a man, a realization that marks an extraordinary/shameful moment in her life. Nonetheless, Megan will miss VS and would opt for an extended stay with the journal after graduation if the internship was paid and would help cover her student loans.

Desirée Acosta is a senior majoring in English with minors in Spanish and West European Studies. During her internship, she enjoyed labouring in the organisation of decades-old applications, massaging incoming manuscripts, translating submissions from 189BrE to AmE, and engaging in editorial dialogue. She greatly enjoyed her time spent studying the texture of the Victorian Studies office and would like to thank the entire editorial staff.

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