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Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
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. 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. Gail Marshall is Professor in the School of English and Director of the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. Her research interests lie in Victorian theatre, Shakespeare's Victorian after-life, the fin de siecle, and women's lives and writings from the period. For Pickering & Chatto she was Series Editor of the five-part series on Lives of Shakespearian Actors (2008-12) and co-edited (with Ralph Pite and Corinna Russell) Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I (2003). Valerie Sanders is Director of the Graduate School and Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hull. Her teaching and research interests lie in the period 1830 to 1930, especially the Victorian novel and children's literature; Victorian family relationships and author studies. For Pickering & Chatto she served as Consultant Editor on The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau (2007).