Kate Loveman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester and an internationally recognized expert on Pepys and Restoration literature. She is the author of Reading Fictions, 1660–1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture, Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660–1703, and the editor of The Diary of Samuel Pepys for Everyman.