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• Andrea Broomfield: Introduction to Special Issue
• Maria Frawley: Behind the Scenes of History: Harriet Martineau and The Lowell Offering.
• Linda K. Hughes: Constructing Fictions of Authorship in George Eliot's Middlemarch, 1871-1872.
• Jennifer Phegley: Domesticating the Sensation Novelist: Ellen Price Wood as Author and Editor of the Argosy Magazine.
• Solveig C. Robinson: Expanding a 'Limited Orbit': Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Development of a Critical Voice.
• Talia Schaffer: Craft, Authorial Anxiety, and the 'Cranford Papers.'
• Clare Cotungo: 'Stay Away from Paris!' Frances Trollope Rewrites America.

Australian, New Zealand, and South African Periodicals. VPR 37 (Winter 2004). Rosemary VanArsdel, guest editor.

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• Rosemary VanArsdel: Introduction to Special Issue
• Elizabeth Webby: Images of Europe in Two Nineteenth-Century Australian Illustrated Magazines.
• Brian Cheadle: South African Serial Publications of the Anglo-Boer War.
• Terry Barringer: What Mrs. Jellby Might Have Read. Missionary Periodicals; A Neglected Source.
• Graham Law: Savouring of the Australian Soil?: On the Sources and Affiliations of Colonial Newspaper Fiction.
• Lucy Sussex: "'Bobbing Around'" James Skipp Borlaise, Adam Lindsay Gordon, and Surviving in the Literary Market of Australia, 1860s.
• Meg Tasker. Two Versions of Colonial Nationalism: The Australian Review of Reviews v. the Sydney Bulletin.

Rosemary T. VanArsdel, Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, is a past president of RSVP and co-editor, with J. Don Vann, of four volumes of guides to research in Victorian periodical literature. Her most recent publication is a biography, "Florence Fenwick Miller: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Educator."

Elizabeth Webby is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. She is co-editor of the forthcoming "A History of the Book in Australia, Volume 1, covering the period to 1890, and has also written the chapters on authorship, reading, and magazines.

Brian Cheadle is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow of the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand. He wrote the chapter on southern Africa for "Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire," edited by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel. His main research interest is Dickens and he wrote the chapter "The Last Novels" for the recent "Cambridge Companion to Dickens."

Terry Barringer was for many years Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society Collections. She is now engaged part-time as Research Officer of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, working on the British Colonial Service and combines this with freelance bibliographical and editorial work.

Graham Law is Professor of Media Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. He is author of "Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press" (2000) and the compiler of "Indexes to Fiction in the 'Illustrated London News' and the 'Graphic'" (2001). He is currently working on a history of the newspaper novel in its global context for the University of Toronto Press.

Lucy Sussex is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Melbourne University. Her particular interest is nineteenth-century crime fiction, and she has edited the writers Mary Fortune, "The Fortunes of Mary Fortune" (Penguin, 1989) and "Ellen Davitt, Force and Fraud" (Mulini, 1993). At present she is writing "Cherchez les Femmes," a study of the first women writers of crime, mystery, and detective fiction.

Meg Tasker lectures at the University of Ballarat and is President of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA). Publications include "Francis Adams: A Research Guide" (UQP, 1996), papers on Clough, Victorian poetics, and Australian cultural history, and the first full-length biography of Francis Adams (1862-1893), "Struggle and Storm" (MUP, 2001).

The 19th-Century Press in India, VPR 37 (Summer 2004). Julie Codell, guest editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Julie F. Codell: Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century News from India
• Máire ní Fhlathúin: The Campaign Against Thugs in the Bengal Press in the 1830s
• Edwin Hirschmann: The Hidden Roots of a Great Newspaper: Calcutta's Statesman
• Debapriya Paul: Hindoo Patriot and Hurish Chunder Mookerjea: A Study in Colonial Resistance
• Krishna Sen: Lessons in Self-Fashioning: Bamabodhini Patrika and the Education of Women in Colonial Bengal
• Peter H. Hoffenberg: Promoting Traditional Indian Art at Home and Abroad: The Journal of Indian Art and Industry, 1884-1917
• Julie F. Codell: Getting the Twain to Meet: Global Regionalism in East and West: A Monthly Review
• Krishna Sen and Debapriya Paul: Archival Press Project, English Department, University of Calcutta: The Calcutta Review

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University. Her numerous articles and reviews on Victorian art and culture have appeared in many scholarly journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias. She wrote The Victorian Artist: Artists' Lifewritings in Britain, c. 1870-1910 (2003), edited Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press (2003), and co-edited Encountering the Victorian Press (with L. Brake; 2004) and Orientalism Transposed (with D. S. Macleod; 1998). She is currently preparing a book on the Delhi coronation durbars, 1877-1911, for which she has received fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Máire ní Fhlathúin lectures at the University of Nottingham, teaching and researching the literature and history of British India. Her articles on the nineteenth-century "campaign against the thugs" have appeared in Victorian Review and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. She has also published on other aspects of Anglo-Indian literature and postcolonial theory.

Edwin Hirschmann is Professor Emeritus of History at Towson University. He is the author of "White Mutiny": The Ilbert Bill Crisis and the Genesis of the Indian National Congress (1980) and co-author of The Making of the Modern World (1988). He has published articles on Indian history in several anthologies and periodicals, such as the Journal of Indian History, and contributed to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, etc. (1988) and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming).

Peter H. Hoffenberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. His research and teaching includes modern Britain and the British empire, notably Australia and India. He is the author of An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War (2001) and various articles and chapters on exhibitions, photography, war and travel. He is currently working on two book projects: a biography of John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) and a survey of nineteenth-century Australian public culture.

Debapriya Paul received his M. A. in English from Calcutta University and is currently an M. Phil (pre- Ph. D) student there. His dissertation is on the role of Hindoo Patriot during the Rebellion of 1857-58. He is also interested in nineteenth-century Bengali literature. Presently he is a part-time Lecturer in English at Netaji Nagar College, Kolkata and working as an UGC-Project Fellow in the Dept. of English, University of Calcutta.

Krishna Sen is Professor, Department of English, Co-ordinator of the Center for Studies in the Cultural Interface between Bengal and Britain, and Faculty Associate in the Women's Studies Research Center, University of Calcutta. She recently was Visiting Professor, University of Vermont (2002). Her publications include Negotiating Modernity: Myth in the Theatre of Eliot, O'Neill and Sartre (1999) and Critical Essays on R.K. Narayan (2003). She has published many scholarly articles in Indian and overseas journals.