N. H. Keeble is Professor of English Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. He is the author of "Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters "(1982) and" The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England "(1987). He has compiled a two-volume "Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter" (1991, with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) and has edited texts by Baxter, John Bunyan and Lucy Hutchinson, as well as collections of essays on Bunyan and an anthology illustrating "The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman" (1994).