Victorian Periodicals Review

William H. Brock is a former Director of the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester and Professor Emeritus of History of Science. He is co-author of Lamp of Learning. Taylor and Francis and the Development of Science Publishing (1984; 2^nd ed. 1998).

Richard Duvall holds degrees in English, speech/theatre, and humanities. He taught dramatic literature at Clark College and is now retired.

Judith Fisher is Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is author of Thackeray's Narrative Skepticism and the Egoism of Authorship (Ashgate, 2002), as well as articles on Thackeray and Dickens in Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Studies, and Studies in the Novel. She is currently finishing a scholarly edition of Thack-eray's The Adventures of Philip and preparing the volume on Thackeray for the Pickering & Chatto series, Lives of Victorian Literature Figures, scheduled for publication in 2007. She is also working on a monograph called "The Empire of the Tea-Table, a Literary History of Tea, 16601900."

Philip Flynn is Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he teaches courses in British Romantic and Victorian poetry and in Biblical and Classical literature. He is the author of Francis Jeffrey (1978) and Enlightened Scotland (1990), and he is currently writing a book on the early years of Blackwood's Magazine.

Robert Morrison is Professor of English Literature at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His editions of Thomas De Quincey's essays On Murder, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are forthcoming. He [End Page 187] is co-general editor of The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt, and volume editor of Hunt's periodical essays, 1822-38. With Chris Baldick, he edited The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre and Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine.

Karen Kurt Teal is a part-time lecturer teaching writing at the University of Washington and Edmonds Community College. She is currently at work on a collection of essays on women in Trollope.

Vanessa Warne is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba. Her current research project explores connections between literacy and disability in Victorian culture.