Chris R. Vanden Bossche is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Carlyle and the Search for Authority and Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–1867 and editor of several volumes in this series of editions of Carlyle’s works. Paul Kerry, Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, has published a monograph on Goethe and edited books on Carlyle, Schiller, and Franklin. He is a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. Marylu Hill is a full teaching professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University. Her publications include "A Tale of a Table: Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and the Legacy of Thomas Carlyle" and Mothering Modernity: Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse.