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Jackie Watson has a PhD in early modern literature from Birkbeck College, London, and continues to research independently. Formerly a secondary school teacher and now working in alumni relations at Somerville College, Oxford, she co-chairs the Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court project with Michelle O'Callaghan and Emma Rhatigan, and, with the latter, she co-edited a collection of essays on the Inns in 2025. She is the author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters (2024), and her published work focuses on epistolarity, law and literature, courtiership and education, and the senses in early modern England. Francis X. Connor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.