Dorothy Eagle, nee Glasgow (born 1912) was an English editor at the Clarendon Press, who compiled several literary reference works.

Life

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Dorothy Eagle was born on 10 March 1912 in Newcastle upon Tyne. From 1953 until 1978, she was a member of the editorial staff at the Clarendon Press.[1]

Her son John (died 2018) was an artist and photographer, who published photo-essays on Irish lighthouses.

Works

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  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature
  • The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles,
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary

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