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This project was made possible through financial assistance from Gladstones Library, the British Association for Victorian Studies and British Association for Romantic Studies. Naomi would like to thank the Warden and trustees of Gladstones Library for the award of a Daisy Ronco scholarship for a weeks study at the library, which gave her the space to conceptualise her side of the volume and enabled her to mine the librarys special collections in nineteenth-century religion for sources. She is grateful for the excellent home cooking and hospitality of staff at the library that made this such a productive and pleasurable visit. Clare would like to thank the committees of the British Associations for Victorian Studies and Romanic Studies for the Nineteenth-Century Matters Early Career Fellowship, which enabled her to devote time to conceptualising her sections and locating sources. She is also grateful for the insights of colleagues at Cardiff University who welcomed her during this period.
We would also both like to thank friends and colleagues who have pointed us to rare sources and whose conversations with us over the last couple of years have helped this volume to take shape: Miriam Burstein, Julie Chajes, Sarah Crofton, Joy Dixon, Boaz Huss, Joshua King, Erin Louttit, Michael Ledger-Lomas, Elizabeth Ludlow, Anne Summers and the late Nickianne Moody.
We would particularly like to thank our fellow volume editors Richa Dwor, Angharad Eyre and Rebecca Styler for being such a congenial and collaborative team to work with and for the lively discussions over tea in the Friends House on the Euston Road and later stages via email, which have not only given rigour and cohesion to this collection but given rise to new projects to come. Finally, we would also like to express our gratitude to Kimberley Smith, Simon Alexander and Sarahjayne Smith at Routledge for their oversight of this project from its early days to its successful completion in what has been an unprecedented global crisis.
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