Anne Montenach is Professor of Early Modern History at Aix-Marseille University, France. She is the co-editor, along with Deborah Leigh Simonton and Marjo Kaartinen, of
Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 (2014) and, with Deborah Leigh Simonton, of
Gender and Urban Development: Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830 (2013).
Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor Emerita of British History at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, and Visiting Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. She was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Utah State University, USA. She is the author of A History of European Women's Work, 1700 to the present (1998) and Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity (2011). She is also the editor of the Routledge History of Women in Modern Europe, 1700 to the present (2006).