James McLaverty Author & Editor

Bill Overton (1946–2012) was Professor of Literature at Loughborough University. Publicly defining himself as a 'generalist', he published on nineteenth-century European novels, on Shakespeare and (increasingly after 1995) on eighteenth-century poetry. This edition of John, Lord Hervey's verse was his final work. Elaine Hobby is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Studies at Loughborough University. She has edited midwifery manuals, life-writings and religio-political pamphlets, and is currently working on an edition of the writings of Aphra Behn for Cambridge University Press. James McLaverty is Emeritus Professor of Textual Criticism at Keele University. Much of his work has focused on Hervey's great antagonist, Alexander Pope, and he is the co-editor, with Paddy Bullard, of Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge, 2013). He currently serves as one of the General Editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift.