The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399506656)

Kristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She researches historical and contemporary children's literature, with a particular focus on children's periodicals and representations of gender. Her other monographs include From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature (1840-1940) (2018, with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford) and Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 (2012). She is co-editor of Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (2023), Children's Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2019), Affect, Emotion, and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (2017), Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 (2014), and Girls' School Stories, 1749-1929 (2014).

Beth Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. She is the author of Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle: Daughters of Today (Palgrave, 2016), which received Special Mention in the University English Book Prize in 2017, and co-editor of Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and Children's Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations (Four Courts, 2013). She has also published widely on the Irish author, L.T. Meade.

Michelle J. Smith is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Monash University, Australia. Her most recent monograph is Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). In the field of children's literature, she is the author of From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature, 1840-1940 (University of Toronto Press, 2018, with Clare Bradford and Kristine Moruzi) and Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 (Palgrave, 2011). Her co-edited collections include Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (Palgrave, in press), Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others (University of Wales Press, 2021), Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture (Palgrave, 2018), Affect, Emotion and Children's Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2017), Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 (Palgrave, 2014), and Girls' School Stories, 1749-1929 (Routledge, 2013).