Eleanor Rust and Tristra Newyear are trained historians and seasoned researchers. Rust received her doctorate in Classics from USC and has done intensive research into early nineteenth-century lifeways as part of her fascination with the material contexts of her favorite Jane Austen novels, exploring historical costume, letter writing, and conduct books. An alumna of Wesleyan and Indiana Universities, Newyear is also a historian with more than twenty years of experience in writing and research. Together, Rust and Newyear created the 2024 limited-run documentary podcast Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical. Both authors live in Indiana.