M. O. Grenby is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English at Newcastle University, UK. He has published extensively on the British response to the French Revolution, the political novel and the early history of children's books, and is the author of several books on children's literature and eighteenth-century culture and co-editor of Popular Children's Literature in Britain and The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature. He edits the Classics of Children’s Literature series with Lynne Vallone.