James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Antony J. Hasler is a Professor in English at Saint Louis University. The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.

The overt aim of publishing material that no one else would touch gives The Three Perils of Women, like so much of Hogg's work, a dangerous, unpredictable quality ... Elegant layout of the new scholarly edition.