Lillian Nayder is Professor and Chair of English at Bates College and President of the Dickens Society. She has published critical studies of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and is writing a novel about Dickens’s two sisters, Fanny and Letitia, and his blind sister-in-law Harriet. Her biography of Catherine Dickens, The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth, is her first venture into life writing. She lives with her family in New Gloucester, Maine.
