Mary Jane Edwards

Mary Jane Edwards is an internationally known editor of literary texts. She taught in the Departments of English of Acadia University and the University of British Columbia before joining Carleton University as Professor of English. In 1996 she was awarded the Henry Charles Chapman Fellowship from London University's Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She has contributed to three anthologies of Canadian literature and prepared critical editions of Francis Brooke's The History of Emily Montague...See more

Mary Jane Edwards is an internationally known editor of literary texts. She taught in the Departments of English of Acadia University and the University of British Columbia before joining Carleton University as Professor of English. In 1996 she was awarded the Henry Charles Chapman Fellowship from London University's Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She has contributed to three anthologies of Canadian literature and prepared critical editions of Francis Brooke's The History of Emily Montague and William Kirby's Golden Dog. She is the director of the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts. See less