Wilkie Collins in Context

William Baker is Distinguished Chair Qiantang River Professor, Hangzhou Normal University China, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. A scholar of British literature, he is the author and editor of numerous articles and books, including Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction (2002), A Wilkie Collins Chronology (2007), The Letters of Wilkie Collins (with William M. Clarke, 1999), The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters (with Andrew Gasson, Graham Law and Paul Lewis, 2005) and The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins (with Paul Lewis, Andrew Gasson and Graham Law, 2019).

Richard Nemesvari is Professor of English and former Dean of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has published widely on Victorian fiction, including the works of Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and the Brontës. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy.