John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator.

Mark Schoenfield is a Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where he specialises in law and literature and periodical culture. The author of The Professional Wordsworth (Georgia, 1996) and British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The "Literary Lower Empire" (Palgrave, 2009), a co-winner of the Colby Prize, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for research toward his current project on the Culture of Litigation, 1770-1835.

Clare Simmons is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University, USA, and is a specialist in the novel, medievalism and nineteenth-century culture. The former editor of Prose Studies, Simmons is most recently the author of Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (2011) and Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year (2021) and the winner of an Armstrong Browning Library Fellowship toward the completion of the latter. She is also the editor of The Entail in the Galt series.