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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English writer known for nuanced depictions of many different classes of Victorian society. Her other novels include Cranford and Wives and Daughters, and she also penned the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. 

Ellen Louise Hart teaches for the Writing Program, the Educational Opportunity Program, and the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of articles on editing Dickinson that have appeared in The Emily Dickinson International SocietyBulletin, Emily Dickinson Journal, An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, TulsaStudies in Women's Literature, The Women's Review ofBooks, and The Heath Anthology of American Literature.

Martha Nell Smith is professor of English at the University of Mary-land, College Park. She is the author of many articles on Emily Dickinson, as well as of Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinso