Elyssa Warkentin has studied Marie Belloc Lowndes and her circle for over a decade, and has published and presented widely on various aspects of her life and work. She edited Lowndes's seminal novel The Lodger in 2015. She holds a PhD in Victorian Literature from the University of Alberta, Canada, and studies late-Victorian crime fiction, particularly stories by and about women. She also writes fiction; her epistolary novel about nineteenth-century Arctic exploration, A Land so Wild and Savage, was published in 2018. She is currently a Research Facilitator at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

"This collection provides rich pickings for researchers interested in the woman question, gender, and masculinities. Lowndes's stories, along with Warkentin's commentaries, will appeal to scholars concerned with how Victorian styles and themes are manifested and transformed in early twentieth-century short fiction. Furthermore, the compilation also marks a decisive turn in the revival of an author who can, thankfully, no longer be called the subject of scholarly neglect."Ellen TurnerLund University; Victorian Periodicals Review, 52:2, 2019