David Womersely

About the Author

David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College. He has written on Edmund Burke, Jonathan Swift and Edward Gibbon.

In The Library:

• editor: Excellencie of a Free-State: Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth (1656)
• introduction: Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century (2006)