Nancy LoPatin-Lummis is Professor of Modern British History at University of Wiscsonsin-Stevens Point. She has published Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832 (1999), is co-general editor of Lives of Victorian Political Figures Series and articles on parliamentary and popular political history in Journal of British Studies, Parliamentary History, Journal of Victorian Culture, Midland History and other journals. She received her PhD from Washington University in St Louis in 1988 and was a student of Richard W. Davis.