Roxanne Eberle is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing, 1792-1897: Interrupting the Harlot's Progress (2002) and the editor of Women and Romanticism (2006). She is currently at work on a cultural biography of Amelia Opie (1769-1853), a poet, novelist and abolitionist.