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Diane Marie Gillespie, who publishes as Diane Filby Gillespie and Diane F. Gillespie, is professor emerita of English at Washington State University. She specializes in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature. Her special interests include modern fiction and drama especially by women writers, relationships between verbal and visual art forms, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press publications. With a University of Minnesota M.A. she taught at Stephens College and, with a University of Alberta, Edmonton, PHD., she taught for 26 years in WSU's English Department. She is author of The Sisters' Arts: The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and numerous journal articles, published conference papers, and book chapters including, most recently, essays in the Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts (ed. Maggie Humm), The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism (ed. Helen Southworth) and Virginia Woolf: Twenty-first Century Approaches (ed. Jeanne Dubino et. al.). Gillespie edited The Multiple Muses of Virginia Woolf and Woolf's Roger Fry: A Biography. She co-edited Virginia Woolf and the Arts: Selected Papers from the Sixth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Cicely Hamilton's play Diana of Dobson's, and Julia Duckworth Stephen: Stories for Children, Essays for Adults.