The Authors : Ruth Whittle is a lecturer at Birmingham University where she teaches Gender Studies and modern German women's literature. In 2001 she held a Leverhulme Fellowship which enabled her to do the research and archive work for this book. She has published a number of articles on the subject of rebellious nineteenth-century women. Debbie Pinfold is a lecturer at Reading University where she teaches courses on post-war literature and modern German history.
She has published on the use of the child's perspective to present the Third Reich and on nineteenth-century women writers.