Dorothy A. McMillan (19432021) was a British literary scholar. An expert on Scottish women's writing, McMillan edited several anthologies, as well as editions of work by

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and Susan Ferrier. She taught for nearly 40 years at

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, where she became Senior Lecturer and later Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature.

Life

Dorothy McMillan was born Dorothy Porter on 17 April 1943. From 1998 to 2002 McMillan served as president of the

Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) is a Scottish educational charitable organization, charity, founded in 1970 to promote and support the teaching, study and writing of Scottish literature. Its founding members included the Sco ...

(ASLS). At Glasgow she became head of the university's School of English and Scottish Language and Literature. She retired from Glasgow University in 2008.

Works

* (ed.) ''The house with green shutters'' by

. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985. * (ed. with Douglas Gifford) ''A History of Scottish Women's Writing''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. * (ed.) ''The Scotswoman at home and abroad: non-fictional writing 1700-1900''. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999. * (ed.) ''Queen of science: personal recollections of Mary Somerville'' by

. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001. * (ed. with Michael Byrne) ''Modern Scottish Women Poets''. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003. * (ed. with Richard Cronin) '' Emma'' by

. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. The Cambridge edition of the works of Jane Austen. * (ed. with Richard Cronin) ''Robert Browning''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 21st-Century Oxford Authors. * (ed.) ''Marriage: a novel'' by Susan Ferrier. Glasgow: The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2020.

References

1943 births 2021 deaths British academics of English literature Scottish literature Academics of the University of Glasgow {{UK-academic-bio-stub