Sophie Gilmartin is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of "Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature" (CUP), has edited an edition of Anthony Trollope's "The Last Chronicle of Barset" for Penguin Classics, and has published articles on Hardy, nineteenth-century poetry and painting, and Victorian widowhood.
Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge where he is a Fellow and Director of Studies at Jesus College. He is the author of books on Charles Dickens, Emil...