Lillian Nayder is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Bates College. She received her PhD in English from the University of Virginia. She wrote Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship and The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth. Her essays and book chapters on Dickens and other Victorian writers have appeared in dozens of journals and collections. She is a past president and trustee of the Dickens Society and served as the guest curator for an exhibit at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.