N.H. Reeve was Professor of English at Swansea University. His books included The Novels of Rex Warner (Macmillan 1987), Reading Late Lawrence (Palgrave, 2003), Elizabeth Taylor (Northcote House, 2008), and with Richard Kerridge, Nearly Too Much: The Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Liverpool University Press, 1996), together with many articles and essays on 19th and 20th century subjects. He has edited three volumes for the Cambridge Lawrence Edition, Introductions and Reviews, The Vicar’s Garden and Other Stories, and Quetzalcoatl. He recently completed an edition of James’s The Jolly Corner and Other Tales for the Cambridge Henry James Edition, and was preparing the volume of Wessex Tales for the Cambridge Thomas Hardy Edition. His and Richard Kerridge's new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's The Oval Window (first published in 1983) was published by Bloodaxe on 29 March 2018. He died three days later on Easter Sunday.