Janet Todd is Herbert JC Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen and General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen; she is an Honorary Fellow if Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She has edited the works of several women writers, including Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft, and among her books are The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Ficiton 1660-1800 (1989) and the biographies The Secret Life of Aphra Behn (1996), Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (2000) and Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict 1798 (2003). She is the editor of Jane Austen in Context (Cambridge, 2005)

John Wiltshire is Reader in English Literature at La Trobe University. He has worked particularly on Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen, and is author of Samuel Johnson in the Medical World (1991), Jane Austen and the Body (1992) and Recreating Jane Austen (2001), all for Cambridge University Press.

Richard Cronin is Professor of English Literature and Dorothy McMillan is Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. Professor Cronin has published widely on Romantic and Victorian literature, including The Politics of Romantic Poetry: In search of the Pure Commonwealth (2001)

Dorothy McMillan edited A History of Scottish Women's Writing (1997) among other publications, and has written articles on a range of English and Scottish women writers.

Peter Sabor is Director of the Burney Centre and Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, Montreal. His previous books include Horace Walpole: The Critical Heritage (1987) and (with Thomas Keymer) Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 2005). With Keymer he is the General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson and he is also General Editor of The Court Journals of Frances Burney.

Barbara M. Benedict is Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of, among other books and articles, Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745-1800 (1994), Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literary Anthologies (1996), and Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (2001).

Deirdre Le Faye is the author of A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family (Cambridge, 2006). She has edited Jane Austen's Letters (1995) and is the author of Jane Austen: A Family Record (second edition, Cambridge, 2004).

Antje Blank is Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Aberdeen. She is the editor of Hannah Cowley (2001) and co-editor, with Janet Todd, of Charlotte Smith's Desmond (2001).

Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida and has edited with G.S Rousseau The Enduring Legacy: Alexander Pope Tercentenary Eassays (Cambridge 1988), Essays on Pope (Cambridge 1994) and Jane Austen, Persuasion (1994)

Edward Copeland is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Pomona College, California. He is the editor of Women Writing About Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820 (Cambridge 1995) and co-editor with Juliet McMaster of the (Cambridge 1996)