Sarah Louise Lill was awarded her PhD from Northumbria University in 2015 for a thesis entitled ‘"The Father of the Cheap Press": Edward Lloyd and the Mass-Market Periodical, 1830-1855’. She now divides her time between conducting research in the field of Victorian periodicals and working as the Marketing and Communications Officer for CAPA College, Wakefield. She has contributed an entry on Edward Lloyd to the Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, edited by Kevin Morrison (McFarland, 2018).Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University and a former president of the British Association for Victorian Studies. He is the author of The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation (2007) and has co-edited (with Kelly Boyd) The Victorian Studies Reader (2007) and (with Jonathan Davis) Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2017). He has written articles about Victorian melodrama, G.W.M. Reynolds, Elsa Lanchester and Jonathan Miller.

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• Introduction: Edward Lloyd, Eminent Victorian (Sarah Louise Lill and Rohan McWilliam)Sarah Louise Lill, In For A Penny: The Business of Mass-Market Publishing 1832-1890. Helen R. Smith, Edward Lloyd and His Authors.Louis James, ‘I am Ada!’: Edward Lloyd and the Creation of the Victorian ‘Penny Dreadful’. Ian Haywood, The Importance of ‘Phis’: The Role of Illustration in Lloyd’s Imitations of Dickens.Adam Abraham, The Man Who Would Be Dickens: Thomas Peckett Prest, Plagiarist. Marie Léger-St-John, Thomas Peckett Prest and the Denvils: Mediating between Edward Lloyd and the Stage.Brian Maidment, ‘Will you walk into the Parlour?’ Lloyd's Songbook and the Domestication of the Popular Lyric.Anna Gasperini, ‘Nicely Boiled and Scraped’: Medicine, Radicalism and the ‘Useful Body’ in a Lloyd Penny Blood.Sara Hackenberg, Romanticism Bites: Quixotic Historicism in Rymer and Reynolds.Melissa Score, A Radical Relationship: Douglas Jerrold and the ‘Workmen and Wages’ Series in the Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. Rohan McWilliam, Sweeney Todd and The Chartist Gothic: Politics and Print Culture in Early Victorian Britain. Matt McKenzie, Afterword: Edward Lloyd and Nineteenth Century Innovations in Printing Technology.

Sarah Louise Lill was awarded her PhD from Northumbria University in 2015 for a thesis entitled ‘"The Father of the Cheap Press": Edward Lloyd and the Mass-Market Periodical, 1830-1855’. She now divides her time between conducting research in the field of Victorian periodicals and working as the Marketing and Communications Officer for CAPA College, Wakefield. She has contributed an entry on Edward Lloyd to the Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, edited by Kevin Morrison (McFarland, 2018).Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University and a former president of the British Association for Victorian Studies. He is the author of The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation (2007) and has co-edited (with Kelly Boyd) The Victorian Studies Reader (2007) and (with Jonathan Davis) Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2017). He has written articles about Victorian melodrama, G.W.M. Reynolds, Elsa Lanchester and Jonathan Miller.

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• Introduction: Edward Lloyd, Eminent Victorian (Sarah Louise Lill and Rohan McWilliam)Sarah Louise Lill, In For A Penny: The Business of Mass-Market Publishing 1832-1890. Helen R. Smith, Edward Lloyd and His Authors.Louis James, ‘I am Ada!’: Edward Lloyd and the Creation of the Victorian ‘Penny Dreadful’. Ian Haywood, The Importance of ‘Phis’: The Role of Illustration in Lloyd’s Imitations of Dickens.Adam Abraham, The Man Who Would Be Dickens: Thomas Peckett Prest, Plagiarist. Marie Léger-St-John, Thomas Peckett Prest and the Denvils: Mediating between Edward Lloyd and the Stage.Brian Maidment, ‘Will you walk into the Parlour?’ Lloyd's Songbook and the Domestication of the Popular Lyric.Anna Gasperini, ‘Nicely Boiled and Scraped’: Medicine, Radicalism and the ‘Useful Body’ in a Lloyd Penny Blood.Sara Hackenberg, Romanticism Bites: Quixotic Historicism in Rymer and Reynolds.Melissa Score, A Radical Relationship: Douglas Jerrold and the ‘Workmen and Wages’ Series in the Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. Rohan McWilliam, Sweeney Todd and The Chartist Gothic: Politics and Print Culture in Early Victorian Britain. Matt McKenzie, Afterword: Edward Lloyd and Nineteenth Century Innovations in Printing Technology.