Jill Rappoport is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where her research has focused on representations of gender, economic traditions, and community activism in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (2012) and co-editor of Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (2013). Her articles have appeared in a range of journals and volumes including Nineteenth-Century Literature; Victorian Literature and Culture; SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900; Victorian Studies, and Victorian Poetry.