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Michael Allen lectures and writes on Dickens. He is the author of Charles Dickens' Childhood (1988) and An English Lady in Paris: The Diary of Frances Anne Crewe 1786 (2006). Malcolm Andrews is Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies in the School of English at the University of Kent. He edits The Dickensian and is the author of Charles Dickens and his Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings (2006). Gill Ballinger is Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she teaches nineteenth-century literature. Her publications include articles on Dickens and the edition of a special issue on the Brontës for Women's Writing . Nicola Bradbury lectures in English and American literature at the University of Reading. She has published several books and articles on Dickens and Henry James, and edited the Penguin Bleak House (1996). Brian Cheadle has published essays on Dickens in Essays in Criticism , Dickens Studies Annual , and various collections of essays, including The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001). He is currently working on The Companion to David Copperfield . Gareth Cordery is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Canterbury, Christ-church, New Zealand. He has published work on Dickens, and is writing a biography of Harry Furniss whose 1905 lecture on Dickens and his illustrators he has edited (2005). ... log in or subscribe to read full text