Cheryl L. Nixon (email: cheryl.nixon@umb.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  Her essay on film adaptations of Austen’s heroes is published in Jane Austen in Hollywood and excerpted in the Norton Critical Edition of Pride and Prejudice.

Louise Penner (email: Louise.penner@umb.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  Her publications include essays on George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, and Elizabeth Stoddard.  Her current research involves eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letter writing manuals and letters in fiction.