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Margaret Homans is Professor of English and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She has published widely on feminist and queer theory and on British and U.S. women writers, starting with Women Poets and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson (1980). Her Victorian publications include Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (1986), Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876 (1998) and, co-edited with Adrienne Munich, Remaking Queen Victoria (1997). Her most recent book is The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility (2013). She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Virginia Woolf, on feminist and queer fiction and theory from Wollstonecraft to the present, and on Queen Victoria and Victorian literature. Joanna Marschner is Senior Curator at Historic Royal Palaces. Based at Kensington Palace she has responsibility for the research, interpretation, and display of its collections of fine art and decorative art. Her publications include Queen Caroline: Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth Century Court (2014), and she was curator of the exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World, and lead editor of its accompanying publication. She has recently contributed three chapters to the volume Kensington Palace: Art Architecture and Society (2018). She has recently been Principal Investigator of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Victoria's Self-Fashioning: Curating Royal Image for Dynasty, Nation and Empire. Adrienne Munich is Professor Emerita of English, Art, and Cultural and Gender Studies at Stony Brook University. She is also Co-editor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Culture, conceived by her and John Maynard and published by Cambridge University Press. In addition to edited collections on women and war, fashion and film, and Amy Lowell, her Victorian publications include Andromeda's Chains (1989), Queen Victoria's Secrets (1996), Remaking Queen Victoria (edited with Margaret Homans, 1997). More recent Victorian publications include
