Simon J. James
<br>Professor and lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Durham, and a graduate of the University of Cambridge. He is the author of <i>Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative Form in the Novels of George Gissing</i> (Anthem, 2003) and of articles on Gissing, H. G. Wells and Charles Dickens. He is the editor of Volume 2 of the <i>Collected Works of George Gissing on Charles Dickens</i> and of three other Penguin Wells titles. [source: <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?1005057">The History of Mr Polly</a>]