Elizabeth J. Clapp received her BA and PhD from the University of London. She has taught for a number of years at the University of Leicester where she is a Senior Lecturer in American History. She has published a book and several articles on women's activism in nineteenth-century America and has recently completed a study of Mrs. Anne Royall and the political culture of the early American republic.
Julie Roy Jeffrey received her BA from Harvard College and her PhD from Rice University. She teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and has held Fulbright awards for teaching in Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands. She works on women and reform in the nineteenth century United States.