Loveman's work is a valuable contribution to the history of reading ... a well-written and clearly presented work ... This is a book that will be of great interest to anyone working on the history of reading.
Kate Loveman is Associate Professor in English Literature 1600-1789 at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Reading Fictions, 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture (2008). Her other publications include articles on book history, eighteenth-century novels, and the introduction of chocolate into England.