Beth Lau

Beth Lau was a Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. She wrote Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets (1991) and Keats’s Paradise Lost (1998) and editor of the collection Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790–1835 (2009). She also edited the New Riverside edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (2002) and co-edited (with Diane Hoeveler) Approaches to Teaching Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1993). In addition, she has published numerous essays on various Romantic writers, including several that explore Austen’s affinities with the male poets.