The writer wishes to thank the committee for their assistance and their patience during this lengthy project. I especially appreciate the help that Professor Soderlund has given me in taking this project from a spreadsheet with 20,000 names to a fully realized thesis. Professors Wood and Rejack have also provided cogent suggestions and criticisms. Thanks to Professor Rejack for enabling me to access the British Periodicals database, and thanks also to Vanette Schwartz, Social Sciences Librarian, for arranging online access to Queen Victoria's journals. I am also more generally indebted to the Periodicals departments of both Texas Christian University and Illinois State University for the use of their microfilm copies of the London Times. I wish to thank Professor Linda Hughes of TCU for reviewing my reading list for the medieval revival. I am also indebted to Professor Hughes as the teacher in whose class I originally studied Victorian periodicals and did the research project (on Charles Gordon and his misadventures in the Sudan) mentioned in the thesis introduction. Professor Purna Banerjee, formerly a student at TCU, and now of Presidency University in Kolkata, India, contributed the suggestion that I should read Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction for this project. Thanks also to Sarah Liles of Weatherford College for editing the bibliography. Last, but perhaps most importantly, I deeply appreciate the love and support my husband Larry Hasfjord and mother Mary Little have provided me through this project and my graduate program.
