Dr Kimberley Reynolds lectures in English and Women's Studies at the Roehampton Institute, where she also runs the Children's Literature Research Centre. Her previous books include Victorian Heroines: Readings in Femininity and its Representations in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art (Harvester, 1993), Girls only? Gender and Popular Juvenile Fiction in Britain 1880-1910 (Harvester, 1990) and An Illustrated Dictionary of Art Terms (Ebury Press, 1981).