Rosemary T. VanArsdel is Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Puget Sound. She is the editor of George Eliot: A Centenary Tribute. J. Don Vann is Regent's Professor of English at University of North Texas. He is editor of Critics on Henry James and co-editor, with Rosemary T. VanArsdel, of Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society.

'Everyone who reads this book in its entirety will put it down knowing more about nineteenth-century England...Readers will also leave the essays refreshed in their awareness of the continuing vitality of Victorian studies.' 'No serious cultural historian or student of the period should fail to consult before descending to the basement of a library and pulling down one of those dusty volumes.' - Klitikon Literarum 'No serious cultural historian or student of the period should fail to consult before descending to the basement of a library and pulling down one of those dusty volumes.' - Clinton K. Krauss (English Literature in Translation, 1880-1920) 'Not only is each of the [chapter] authors authoritative and sensible, they have also been organized and edited to an overall consistency that makes browsing an agreeable pastime.' - Newsletter, British Library Newspaper

Rosemary T. VanArsdel is Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Puget Sound. She is the editor of George Eliot: A Centenary Tribute. J. Don Vann is Regent's Professor of English at University of North Texas. He is editor of Critics on Henry James and co-editor, with Rosemary T. VanArsdel, of Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society.

'Everyone who reads this book in its entirety will put it down knowing more about nineteenth-century England...Readers will also leave the essays refreshed in their awareness of the continuing vitality of Victorian studies.' 'No serious cultural historian or student of the period should fail to consult before descending to the basement of a library and pulling down one of those dusty volumes.' - Klitikon Literarum 'No serious cultural historian or student of the period should fail to consult before descending to the basement of a library and pulling down one of those dusty volumes.' - Clinton K. Krauss (English Literature in Translation, 1880-1920) 'Not only is each of the [chapter] authors authoritative and sensible, they have also been organized and edited to an overall consistency that makes browsing an agreeable pastime.' - Newsletter, British Library Newspaper

Rosemary T. VanArsdel is Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Puget Sound. She is the editor of George Eliot: A Centenary Tribute. J. Don Vann is Regent's Professor of English at University of North Texas. He is editor of Critics on Henry James and co-editor, with Rosemary T. VanArsdel, of Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society.

'Everyone who reads this book in its entirety will put it down knowing more about nineteenth-century England...Readers will also leave the essays refreshed in their awareness of the continuing vitality of Victorian studies.' 'No serious cultural historian or student of the period should fail to consult before descending to the basement of a library and pulling down one of those dusty volumes.' - Klitikon Literarum 'No serious cultural historian or student of the period should fail to consult before descending to the basement of a library and pulling down one of those dusty volumes.' - Clinton K. Krauss (English Literature in Translation, 1880-1920) 'Not only is each of the [chapter] authors authoritative and sensible, they have also been organized and edited to an overall consistency that makes browsing an agreeable pastime.' - Newsletter, British Library Newspaper