Charlotte Boyce is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published essays on Victorian cookery books and Victorian representations of hunger and famine, and is currently co-writing A History of Food in Literature.Páraic Finnerty is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare (2006) and of the forthcoming Dickinson and her British Contemporaries. Anne-Marie Millim gained her PhD in Victorian Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2009. She was involved in the University of Portsmouth's project 'Tennyson's Celebrity Circle', then received a two-year postdoctoral research grant by the Luxembourg National Research Fund and is now principal investigator of an FNR-funded three-year research project on the feuilleton in Luxembourg.