NICOLA J. WATSON has taught at Oxford and Harvard, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. Her publications include
Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825 (1994),
At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Materialist, and Feminist Criticism (with Mary Favret, 1994), an edition of Walter Scott's
The Antiquary (2002) and
England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (with Michael Dobson, 2002).