Kate Loveman

Kate Loveman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester. She works on Restoration and early eighteenth-century literature and history, with particular interests in reading practices, political writing, and social networks. She has written extensively on the life and papers of Samuel Pepys, including a monograph, Samuel Pepys and His Books: Reading, Newsgathering and Sociability, 1660-1703 (2015) and an edition of Pepys's Diary for Everyman (2018). Other publications include Reading Fictions: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture 1660–1740 (2008), and articles on topics ranging from Daniel Defoe’s works to seventeenth-century chocolate.