BILL OVERTON is Professor of Literary Studies at Loughborough University, UK. His most recent books are
The Novel of Female Adultery: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction 1830-1900 (1996),
Fictions of Female Adultery: Theories and Circumtexts 1684-1890 (2002) and
A Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette, 1731-1737 (2001).