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Benjamin Hudson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia currently preparing to defend his dissertation “Exquisite Amateurs: Queer Dilettantism and Victorian Aesthetics.” The project focuses on the work of FitzGerald, Pater, and Wilde, and he is also preparing a new chapter on Michael Field to develop the dissertation into a book manuscript.

Beth Newman teaches at Southern Methodist University, and more usually publishes on nineteenth-century fiction. She is the author of Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity (2004), and she has edited Jane Eyre for Bedford/St. Martin’s (second edition, 2014) and Wuthering Heights (Broadview, 2006).

Marjorie Stone, McCulloch Professor of English, Dalhousie University, is Volume Editor for 3 of 5 volumes in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Pickering and Chatto, 2010, Gen. Ed., Sandra Donaldson); co-editor, with Beverly Taylor, of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems (Broadview, 2009); co-editor of Literary Couplings: Writing Couples and the Construction of Authorship (Wisconsin, 2006), and author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Macmillan, 1995). She has also published on cultural citizenship, sex trafficking, multiculturalism, the corporate university, and various authors, including Robert Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass and Joseph Mazzini. Her most recent article—on the reception of Aurora Leigh—appeared on BRANCH (www.branchcollective.org).

Wendy S. Williams is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Texas Christian University. She has written several articles on George Eliot’s poetry. Her book, George Eliot, Poetess (2014), explores Eliot’s reliance on a poetess tradition that was deeply invested in religion and feminine sympathy.

Cheryl A. Wilson is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Klein Family School of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore. She is the author of Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009) and Fashioning the Silver fork Novel (Pickering & Chatto, 2012) and co-editor, with Margaret D. Stetz, of Michael Field and Their World (Rivendale 2007). [End Page 243]

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