Cheryl Cassidy is Professor in the department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, USA. Her publications include Dying in the Light: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Female Obituaries. Caroline Daley is Associate Professor in the department of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960; Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930; and co-editor of The Gendered Kiwi and Suffrage & Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives. Elizabeth Dimock is Honorary Research Associate & Seminar Convenor, African Research Institute, & History Program, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. Susan K Martin is an Associate Professor in the English program at La Trobe University, Australia. She is co-author of Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia, and co-editor of Green Pens: an Anthology of Australian Garden Writing.