{{Infobox person | name = Jane Millgate | image = Jane_Millgate_died_2019.jpg | image_size = | caption = in Abbotsford House's library | birth_name = Eunice Jane Barr | birth_date = {{birth date text|1937}} | birth_place = Leeds, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|1|26|1937|df=yes}} | death_place = Canada | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = authority on the works of Sir Walter Scott | education = Leeds University<br>University of Kent | employer = | occupation = Literary historian | spouse = Prof. Michael Millgate | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''(Eunice) Jane Millgate''' born '''Eunice Jane Barr''' (1937 – 26 January 2019) was a British born Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She was an authority on the works of Sir Walter Scott.
==Life== Millgate was born in Leeds in 1937. She gained her education at Leeds University and at the University of Kent. She married in 1960 and four years later she and Michael Millgate emigrated to Canada.<ref name=uoft/>
Millgate started her thirty year career at the University of Toronto in 1964 where she was teaching English at Victoria College. In the 1980s she was the vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, but she was known for her teaching and especially of 19th century literature.<ref name=uoft/> Her 1984 book ''Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist'' established her and the book as an authority on Scott. The book reevaluated Scott's contribution to literature and his then new approach to historical writing.<ref name=uoft/>
In 2002 she was elected President of the Edinburgh Walter Scott Club.<ref name=scottclub>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walterscottclub.com/2002-jane-millgate|title=2002 Jane Millgate|website=The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref>
She died in Toronto in 2019 leaving her husband Emeritus Professor Michael Millgate. She had met her husband in 1960 whilst he was teaching English literature at Leeds University.
==Awards and fellowships== * Fellow of Massey College<ref name=uoft>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/intellect-humour-and-insight-jane-millgate-wrote-seminal-study-sir-walter-scott-was-inspiring|title='Intellect, humour and insight': Jane Millgate wrote seminal study on Sir Walter Scott, was inspiring mentor to students|website=University of Toronto News|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> * Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1994)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/jane-millgate/|title=Professor Jane Millgate FRSCan FRSE|date=2017-05-19|website=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> * Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.<ref name=scottclub/>
==Works include== * ''Macaulay'' (1973) * ''Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist'' (1984) * ''Scott's Last Edition: A Study in Publishing History'' (1987)
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== External links ==
* [https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?pid=191485533 Legacy.com obituary] *[https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/uta-jane-millgate-fonds Jane Millgate archival papers] held at the [https://utarms.library.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services]
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