CONTRIBUTORS

ROBERT BLEDSOE is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Literature at the University of Texas, El Paso. His articles have appeared in a number of publications, including PMLA, Studies in the Novel, Women in Literature, Mosaic, The Dickensian and Victorian Studies.

MARY BURGAN, Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Indiana University, is a member of the VS Editorial Board. She has authored articles on Jane Austen and father figures in Lawrence and Joyce. Her current research involves her in the areas of children’s literature and the family in Victorian fiction.

WILLIAM J. GATENS is the author of Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory and Practice (1986). He has written articles and reviews for Music & Letters, The American Organist, and The Diapason. Professionally, he combines practical and scholarly interests, particularly in the fields of organ and choral music.

PETER HORTON is Assistant Reference Librarian at the Royal College of Music, London. His special interest is nineteenth-century English church music, and he is currently editing the complete anthems of S. S. Wesley and working on a full-length study of the composer.

LINDA K. HUGHES, Associate Professor of English at Texas Christian University, is author of The Manyfaced Glass: Tennyson’s Dramatic Monologues (1987). She and Michael Lund are completing a book on Victorian serial literature. While teaching at the University of Missouri-Rolla, she was a member of the Collegium Musicum and played recorders and krummhorn.

BERNARR RAINBOW is President of the Curwen Institute in London and the author of numerous books, including Land without Music: Musical Education in England, 1800-1860, and its Continental Antecedents (1967), English Psalmody Prefaces (1982), and Music in Educational Thought and Practice (in preparation). He currently edits the continuing series Classic Texts in Music Education, which has issued 24 facsimile volumes to date.

NICHOLAS TEMPERLEY is Professor of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Music of the English Parish Church (1979) and has edited The Blackvuell History of Music in Britain, Volume 5, The Romantic Age (1981) and a 20-volume series of piano music, The London Pianoforte School 1766-1860 (1984-87). In 1966 he revived a Victorian opera, Raymond and Agnes by Edward Loder, on stage at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge. He is currently writing a book about the piano in European life.