Abigail Williams

Abigail Williams is Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at King’s College London. She has published numerous books including The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home and Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature. A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, she has written and presented the series Pride or Prejudice: How We Read Now, I Feel Therefore I Am and The Pedant’s Progress.