The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings is a collection of original essays, each of which examines an important aspect of the history of the periodical press.

Joanne Shattock is Emeritus Professor in the School of English at the University of Leicester. She is the President of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and holds an Honorary Moser Fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Keele.Wolff Michael :

Michael Wolff, Associate Professor of English and History at Indiana University, was educated at Cambridge and Princeton (Ph.D. 1958). He is editor-in-chief of Victorian Studies, an advisory editor of the Wellesley index and of Studies in British Culture, and a member of many international committees and study groups on Victorian culture.