Clare Gill Author & Editor

Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830 70 (2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850 1914 (2011). She has also co-edited four books, most recently Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s 1900s, with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers (2019). Her most recent book publication is New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832 60 (2021). This project was a 2019 recipient of the Linda H. Peterson Prize awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. She is currently at work on a biography of Eliza Cook.