Biographies

Margaret Beetham is Reader in the Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University. She is author of A Magazine of her Own: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine 1800–1914 (Routledge, 1994), and co-editor (with Kay Boardman) of The Victorian Woman's Magazine: An Anthology (Manchester University Press, 2002), and (with Ann Heilmann) New Woman Hybridities: Feminity, Feminism and International Consumer Culture 1880–1930 (Routledge, 2004).

William Davis is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, in Baltimore. His main areas of specialization are the Victorian novel and short fiction. His book, Thomas Hardy and the Law, was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2003.

James Finley teaches writing and literature at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon in 1988, where he studied under Ken Kesey and co-authored the novel Caverns (Viking, 1990) with Kesey and twelve fellow graduate students. Currently, he is collaborating with his former classmates on a memoir of that year, Writing Under the Influence.

Peter C. Grosvenor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, where he teaches classes in the history of political thought. He is currently revising his Ph.D. dissertation, A Medieval Future: The Social, Economic, and Aesthetic Thought of A. J. Penty, for publication in book form in 2006.

Lorna Huett is a graduate student at Trinity College, Cambridge. She is working towards the completion of a thesis on Household Words and All the Year Round, and on the contributions to these magazines made by various women writers. She has previously published an article on Elizabeth Gaskell's Household Words writing, and is also editing Poems by Two Brothers, by Alfred and Charles Tennyson, for the Juvenilia Press.

George Mariz is Professor of History at Western Washington University. His interests are in the intellectual history of the nineteenth century and the history of religion. He is currently at work on a study of the social ideas of the sons of Anglican ministers.

Deborah Mutch lectures in English Literature at a number of UK universities. Her area of research is the interaction between literature and politics in relation to the development of British Victorian socialism and the formation of the Labour Party, and has published English Socialist Periodicals, 1880–1900: A Reference Source with Ashgate. She is currently working on a monograph on the fiction carried by Justice, the Clarion, the Workman's Times and other socialist periodicals.

John North is Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, teaching Victorian Literature, Shakespeare, Children's Literature, and Literature and the Bible. He has edited 33 volumes of the Waterloo Directories of Irish (1986), Scottish (1989) and English (1994–2003) Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800–1900 in print and online editions. See www.VictorianPeriodicals.com.

Solveig C. Robinson is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Publishing and Printing Arts Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She is the editor of A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview, 2003) and the author of articles on Eliza Cook, M. E. Braddon, and other women writers published in Victorian Periodicals Review and Victorian Poetry.

Elizabeth Tilley is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published articles on gothic fiction, Irish periodicals, and the history of the Irish book. She is currently writing a monograph on nineteenth-century Irish periodicals.

Joel Wiener is Mary Gibbs Jones Chair and Professor of History at Rice University and a longtime member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. His recent book is titled Men of Blood:Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (2004).

Catherine A. Wiley is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her dissertation (finished in January 2002) examines the writings of late-Victorian aestheticist essayists Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, and John Addington Symonds, specifically in terms of the links between aesthetic experience and questions of gender...