Matilde Serao Author

Matilde Serao (1856-1927) published more than forty books, wrote a very popular newspaper column, and, with her husband, the Neapolitan journalist Eduardo Scarfoglio, raised four children and founded three newspapers, one of which, Il Mattino, is still the largest Neapolitan daily. Paula Paige is an adjunct professor emerita of Romance languages and literatures at Wesleyan University. She is also the translator of A Small-Town Marriage by La Marchesa Colombi (Northwestern, 2001). Mary Ann Carolan is an associate professor of modern languages and literatures at Fairfield University in Connecticut.