Talia Schaffer is a professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction (2016), Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2011), and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (2001), as well as articles and edited volumes focusing on women’s literature and culture in the 19th century.