Katie Barclay is a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of the double-awarding winning Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850, and numerous articles on emotions and family life.

Sarah Richardson is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. Her latest monograph is The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain published by Routledge in 2013.