Ebine Hiroshi (email: ebineh@suite.plala.or.jp) is Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University, Japan.  He is the author of a history of the nineteenth-century British novel and translator of Brontë’s The Professor and Joyce’s Stephen Hero.  He has also written on Austen, Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Gaskell, George Eliot, and Hardy.

Amano Miyuki (email: amano@pu-hiroshima.ac.jp) is professor of the Prefectural University of Hiroshima.  She is the author of George Eliot to gengo, imēji, taiwa (George Eliot and Language, Image and Dialogism).  Her research is in the area of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women writers.

Hisamori Kazuko (email: k-hisamori@jcom.home.ne.jp) is Professor Emeritus of Ferris University, Japan.  She has written on Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Emily Brontë, and is currently interested in works of art by Henry Fuseli, Caspar David Friedrich, and Balthus in relation to English novels of the period.