Laurence Talaraich-Vielmas is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Toulouse (UTM). She is the author of Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels (Ashgate, 2007) and Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (The University of Wales Press, forthcoming) and has edited M. E. Braddon’s Thou Art the Man (Valancourt Books, 2008).