MAREA MITCHELL is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. Her current teaching and research focus on Early Modern Literature from a cultural materialist perspective, and her most recent publications are on The Book of Margery Kempe, Anna Weamys, and Sidney's Arcadia.DIANNE OSLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Media at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Her teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century fiction, romance fiction, the ethics of autobiography, and discursive writing, and she has published most recently on Jane Eyre and The Stone Diaries, Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Richardson's Clarissa.