Richard Mullen has taught history at the Universities of Oxford and London. He has edited Fanny Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans and a collection of Anthony Trollope's essays and short stories. Co-author of a recent biography of Queen Victoria published by BBC Publications, he has also written a number of scripts for the BBC, including the centenary tribute to Trollope in 1982. His biography of Trollope draws on more than ten years' research in England and America.