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Note on contributor
Independent scholar. Andrew Gasson is the author of
Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide and coeditor of The Public Face of Wilkie Collins:
Collected Letters and Lives of Victorian Literary Figures V: Vol. 3 – Wilkie Collins
. He is Chairman of the Wilkie Collins Society and is currently working on a bibliography
of Collins.
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William Baker is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Northern Illinois University (DeKalb,
Illinois). A festschrift edited by his former students, Kenneth Womack and James M.
Decker, appeared as
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016). His
The Literature of the Fox: A Reference Guide to Jewish Writing in the UK, co-authored with Jeanette Shumaker (Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press, 2016), is the first
in a two-volume account of the subject.