Anne-Marie Beller is a Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK. She has published on Mary Elizabeth Braddon and other sensation novelists. Recent publications include chapters for A Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). Anne-Marie is the Editor of The Wilkie Collins Journal.Tara MacDonald is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has published on sensation fiction, Victorian masculinity, and neo-Victorian fiction. She recently contributed to Other Sensations (special issue of Critical Survey, 2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013).

• 1. Introduction Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald 2. Sensation Intervention: M.C. Houstoun’s Recommended To Mercy (1862) and the Novel of Experience Tabitha Sparks 3. Strange Sympathies: George Eliot and the Literary Science of Sensation Mary Beth Tegan 4. Sensational Ghosts, Ghostly Sensations Nick Freeman 5. The False Clues of Innocent Sensations: Aborting Adultery Plots in Rhoda Broughton’s Nancy (1873) Tamara S. Wagner 6. Experimental Medicine, Marital Harmony and Florence Marryat’s An Angel of Pity (1898) Greta Depledge 7. Embodying Agency: Ouida’s Sensational Shaping of the British New Woman Lisa Hager 8. ‘‘Romans Français Écrits En Anglais’’: Ouida, the Sensation Novel and Fin-de-siècle Literary Censorship Jane Jordan

Anne-Marie Beller is a Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK. She has published on Mary Elizabeth Braddon and other sensation novelists. Recent publications include chapters for A Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). Anne-Marie is the Editor of The Wilkie Collins Journal.Tara MacDonald is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has published on sensation fiction, Victorian masculinity, and neo-Victorian fiction. She recently contributed to Other Sensations (special issue of Critical Survey, 2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013).

• 1. Introduction Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald 2. Sensation Intervention: M.C. Houstoun’s Recommended To Mercy (1862) and the Novel of Experience Tabitha Sparks 3. Strange Sympathies: George Eliot and the Literary Science of Sensation Mary Beth Tegan 4. Sensational Ghosts, Ghostly Sensations Nick Freeman 5. The False Clues of Innocent Sensations: Aborting Adultery Plots in Rhoda Broughton’s Nancy (1873) Tamara S. Wagner 6. Experimental Medicine, Marital Harmony and Florence Marryat’s An Angel of Pity (1898) Greta Depledge 7. Embodying Agency: Ouida’s Sensational Shaping of the British New Woman Lisa Hager 8. ‘‘Romans Français Écrits En Anglais’’: Ouida, the Sensation Novel and Fin-de-siècle Literary Censorship Jane Jordan

Anne-Marie Beller is a Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK. She has published on Mary Elizabeth Braddon and other sensation novelists. Recent publications include chapters for A Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). Anne-Marie is the Editor of The Wilkie Collins Journal.Tara MacDonald is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has published on sensation fiction, Victorian masculinity, and neo-Victorian fiction. She recently contributed to Other Sensations (special issue of Critical Survey, 2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013).

• 1. Introduction Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald 2. Sensation Intervention: M.C. Houstoun’s Recommended To Mercy (1862) and the Novel of Experience Tabitha Sparks 3. Strange Sympathies: George Eliot and the Literary Science of Sensation Mary Beth Tegan 4. Sensational Ghosts, Ghostly Sensations Nick Freeman 5. The False Clues of Innocent Sensations: Aborting Adultery Plots in Rhoda Broughton’s Nancy (1873) Tamara S. Wagner 6. Experimental Medicine, Marital Harmony and Florence Marryat’s An Angel of Pity (1898) Greta Depledge 7. Embodying Agency: Ouida’s Sensational Shaping of the British New Woman Lisa Hager 8. ‘‘Romans Français Écrits En Anglais’’: Ouida, the Sensation Novel and Fin-de-siècle Literary Censorship Jane Jordan