Julia Briggs was the general editor of the highly successful Penguin Virginia Woolf and herself edited Night and Day for the series. She is the author of Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story, A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858–1924 and This Stage-play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580–1625. She is currently Professor of English and Women’s Studies at De Montfort University.
