Margaret Smith is Vice-President of the Brontë Society and editor of the complete three-volume edition of the Letters. She is co-author, with Christine Alexander, of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës.
Janet Gezari is the author of Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: the Author and the Body at Risk (1992) and Last Things: Emily Brontë's Poems (OUP, 2007). She has also written the introduction to the new edition of Brontë's Shirley for OWC.