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Kathleen Mary Tillotson ,(born April 3 1906 - died June 3 2001) was an English scholar - academic and literary critic. The daughter of Eric Constable, a journalist. After Ackworth School and the Mount school, York, she went to Somerville College, Oxford. She taught at Somerville and St Hilda's College before being appointed part-time assistant at Bedford College, London University, where she remained teaching English (as junior lecturer, lecturer, reader and Hildred Carlile professor) until retirement in 1971. She received numerous honours and awards, including an OBE. guardianobituaries

She married in 1933. she was anti-Conservative, welcomed the Open University, Her husband, Geoffrey Tillotson, taught at Birkbeck College, London, predeceased her in 1969.The book they collaborated on, Mid-Victorian Studies (1965),  She had two adopted sons, Henry and Edmund.

She was an authority on Charles Dickens, and was a distinguished scholar of the Victorian era. Her major achievement was the Clarendon edition of Dickens, for which she acted as general editor from 1957 until 1994, and the Pilgrim edition of Dickens's letters, on which she worked in various capacities between 1964 and 2000.

Books: - The Novels Of The 1840s (1954) and Dickens At Work (1957), written in collaboration with John Butt.

She had a vast knowledge of Victorian literature in general, George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Tennyson, Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Disraeli and Charlotte Yonge --also  a wide appreciation of Elizabethan literature, her editing career beginning with volume five of Michael Drayton's Works (1941), and her literary history including an essay on the 19th century's response to John Donne.

her lecture, The Tale And The Teller (1959), which  surveyed the question of the author's voice, which has been subjected to so much abstract and theoretical discussion.