Shelley King is Professor Emerita of English at Queen's University. John B. Pierce is Professor of English at Queen's University. They are the editors of the Broadview Editions of Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter and The Dangers of Coquetry and of George McDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and Other Fairy Tales.

"One of the masterpieces of Gothic fiction, The Romance of the Forest is superbly presented here. Shelley King and John Pierce introduce and annotate Radcliffe's enthralling narrative in a meticulous yet also reader-friendly style, and their judicious selection of contextual material highlights the stakes of the work with admirable clarity." -- Thomas Keymer, Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman University Professor of English, University of Toronto

"The Romance of the Forest is my favorite Radcliffe novel to teach. I so wish I'd had this Broadview edition in hand the last time I taught it. The introduction is accessible yet challenging to undergraduates; it raises key questions about genre, the relation of sensibility to period theories of nerves and imagination, and Radcliffe's engagement with landscape and the visual arts. These same topics link through to the supplemental backmatter. When the acknowledgements reference the editors' students, I know I'm in good hands!" -- Miriam L. Wallace, University of Illinois-Springfield

"King and Pierce have made The Romance of the Forest available in a splendid new edition. Their comprehensive and incisive introduction and ample explanatory notes illuminate Radcliffe's aesthetic concerns and subtle literary techniques, while carefully chosen appendices help us to understand how Gothic fiction in general and Radcliffe's novels in particular were read by her contemporaries. Somewhat overshadowed by its spectacular successor, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Romance of the Forest here takes centre stage." -- Peter Sabor, McGill University