Jane Millgate

Jane Millgate was Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society of Canada. She was a former president of the Club and had been a prominent and prolific scholar and had widely published on Sir Walter Scott, inter alia, Scott’s Last Edition: A Study in Publishing History (1987), an examination of the creation of Scott’s Magnum Opus edition, for which she had been awarded the British Academy’s Crawshay Prize in 1988. She was also the author of Macaulay (1973), Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist (1984), and of numerous articles on Scott and other nineteenth-century authors. Her Union Catalogue of the Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott, comprising approximately 14000 records for letters from and to Scott, is published by the National Library of Scotland [Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence], it is an invaluable resource for all Scott scholars.

Prof. Millgate died in 2009 and had been an active supporter of the Club and will be greatly missed. By way of honouring her memory we agreed to sponsor a Jane Millgate Memorial Lecture at the Triennial International Scott Conference - starting from 2021 with a donation of up to £500 towards the expenses of a plenary speaker coming abroad.

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