Nicola Watson works for the Open University. Her research on the recption and adaptation of literary figures and texts ranges across the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An interest in Walter Scott threads throughout her diverse publications, including Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790 - 1825 (1994) and The Literary Tourist: Readers and places in Romantic and Victorian Britain (2006). She has edited Scott's The Antiquary (for OUP, 2002) and two collections, including Literary Tourism and Nineteenth Century Culture (2009).
Probably closer to a 3.5 star, but it’s hard to rate textbooks. I found the Creative Writing sections a little dry, but enjoyed the activities which were set. The Twelfth Night and Jane Eyre sections added a good amount of context to the play and the novel respectively, and I enjoyed discovering more about them.