Carolyn Lambert is a visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton where she teaches nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction (2013) and co-editor with Marion Shaw of For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women (2017). She has a chapter entitled 'Female Voices in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton' in a forthcoming publication from Bloomsbury edited by Adrienne E Gavin and Carolyn W de la Oulton.