The 1978 book, Editing
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, shows how important
Millgate has been to developing and intertwining scholarly
communities, too. In her
introduction to papers given at the Conference on Editorial
Problems, Millgate deftly
addresses the variations of method that might be expected in
this formative moment for
major editions. Hershel Parker, as recently as 2013,
refracted the energy, enthusiasm
and commitment of that conference as a community. He touted
in particular “Millgate’s
Great Essay on Scott’s THE SIEGE OF MALTA,” “still the best
study of “a document over
which its author did not have full mental or physical
control.’” Millgate’s, he reminds
us, is pioneering work—not just in editing, or in the
formative discipline of disability
studies, but in linking scholars and expanding fields.
From Caroline McCracken-Flesher's part of the tribute.
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