Elisabeth Jay is Emerita Professor of English at Oxford Brookes University, where her research interests lie in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the interdisciplinary area of literature and theology and the permeable boundaries between fiction, biography and autobiography. She is a Fellow of the English Association and of the American Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture. Joanne Shattock is Emeritus Professor in the School of English at the University of Leicester. Her research interests focus on the nineteenth-century periodical press, nineteenth-century women's writing, book history, life-writing and bibliography. She is the President of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and holds an Honorary Moser Fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Keele.