ANN HEILMANN is a Professor of English at the University of Hull, UK. The author of "New Woman Fiction" and "New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird," she has edited two previous essay collections, "Feminist Forerunners" and (with Margaret Beetham) "New Woman Hybridities," MARK LLEWELLYN is a researcher in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has co-edited (with Ann Heilmann) four special issues on the theme of women's historical fiction for "Women: a cultural review," "Women's Writing," "Critical Survey" and "Feminist Review,"