Biographies
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Margaret Beetham retired this year from the English Department of Manchester Metropolitan University and is currently working on representations of the domestic in nineteenth-century popular print. Her publications include A Magazine of her Own: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine 1800–1914 (Routledge, 1996) and The Victorian Women's Magazine: An Anthology, with Kay Boardman (Manchester UP, 2001), as well as a range of articles and chapters on the periodical press, cookery books, and the histories of popular reading. She is one of the Associate Editors of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009).
Richard Fulton is former President of RSVP and the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies of the Western United States, and former editor of VPR. He is slowly working on a book on how adventure discourse shaped boys' lives in the mid-Victorian period. He is currently Vice Chancellor for Instruction at Windward Community College in Kane'ohe, Hawai'i.
Paul Fyfe is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Virginia. He has served as Project Manager for the Rossetti Archive and currently holds a NINES Graduate Fellowship. He recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University working with its program in the History of Text Technologies (HOTT).
Louis James, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Kent, England, has been a member of RSVP from its beginnings, and was for many years was Associate Editor of The Victorian Periodicals Review. His publications include Fiction for the Working Man (Oxford, 1963; revised, Penguin, 1973); Print and the People (Allen Lane, 1978); The Victorian Novel (Blackwells, 2006); and, co-edited with Anne Humpherys, G.W M. Reynolds (Ashgate, 2008).
Sally Mitchell, a long-time member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, is now Emerita Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is author of Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Reformer (U Virginia P, 2004). The second edition of her Everyday Life in Victorian England, just published by Greenwood Press, adds to the 1996 edition an appendix on trustworthy research sources available on the public web without access to subscription databases. She serves on the RSVP Senior Advisory Council and the Victorian Periodicals Review Editorial Board.
James Mussell is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. He was one of the editors of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition that was launched in 2008 and is the author of Science, Time and Space in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (Ashgate, 2007). Mussell serves as Webmaster for the RSVP Web site, rs4vp.org. [End Page 105]
