Chloe Wigston Smith is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies in the Department of English and Related Literature and Director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. Her research sits at the intersection of print culture and material culture studies. She is the author of Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, and the co-editor of Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers and Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature.

Helen Smith is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York and Director of Thin Ice Press: The York Centre for Print. She is the author of Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England and co-editor of Renaissance Paratexts, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700 and Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. She is the founding co-director of Thin Ice Press and Director of the York Centre for Print.