Felicity James is Associate Professor in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature in the Department of English at the University of Leicester, UK. She works on sociability, friendship and creative exchange amongst writers and communities, with a specific interest in the literature and networks of religious Dissent, and Charles and Mary Lamb.

Julian North is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century literature in the Department of English at the University of Leicester, UK. She specialises in Romantic and Victorian life writing and has a particular interest in literary biography, the construction of authorship, and the literary portrait.