Francis O'Gorman is Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He has written widely across the Victorian period and his books include <i>Late Ruskin: New Contexts</i> (2001); <i>Ruskin and Gender</i> (co-edited with Dinah Birch, 2002), and <i>The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition</i> (co-edited with Katherine Turner, 2004). He is currently writing about raising the dead and the enchanting power of words in the nineteenth century. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Companion of the Guild of St George.