Alison Booth is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992) and How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004). She is completing a book on Anglo-American literary tourism, house museums, and biography, called “Homes and Haunts,” and also directs the online bibliography and database, Collective Biographies of Women.