Professor Helen Small, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Editor of the 2011 Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Eustace Diamonds took part in a Q&A with the participants of the BIG READ on Zoom.

Professor Helen Small regularly writes essays about Victorian fiction, poetry, and public moralism, and has edited several well-known and less well-known nineteenth-century literary works, including Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights, The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob, The Eustace Diamonds, The Last Chronicle of Barset, and (with Stephen Wall) Little Dorrit. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Victorian Culture and the advisory board of History of Humanities.

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing for The Eustace Diamonds
• Download The Eustace Diamonds free of charge from Project Gutenberg