Abigail Burnham Bloom is Managing Editor of the journal Victorian Literature and Culture. She is the co-editor of Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters (1994) and author of many articles 'Transcending through Incongruity: The Background of Humor in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus' in The Victorian Comic Spirit. She has written and lectured on the Carlyles and the Brontës. Her new book on Geraldine Jewsbury in EER's 'Key Popular Women Writers' series will e published in early 2020.