Patricia Pender is Associate Professor in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor, with Rosalind Smith, of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014).   Rosalind Smith is Professor in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the co-editor, with Patricia Pender, of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014) and co-founder, again with Pender, of the Early Modern Women's Research Network (EMWRN) in 2008 at the University of Newcastle, Australia.