Ada Nisbet

Ada Blanche Nisbet (May 7, 1907 – September 16, 1994) was an American literary scholar. A scholar of Dickens studies, she was author of Dickens and Ellen Ternan and co-editor of Dickens Centennial Essays (1972), as well as a two-time Guggenheim Fellow. She was a professor at University of California, Los Angeles, working at their English department for almost three decades.

Biography Ada Blanche Nisbet was born on May 7, 1907, in Chicago. She was a 1945-1946 American Association of University Women May Treat Morrison Fellow. Nisbet was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the basic trends in the social and intellectual relations between England and America in the early Victorian period". She was awarded another Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954.

Nisbet was a Democrat.

Nisbet died on September 16, 1994, in California, (Sources conflict on the exact city, namely whether it is Berkeley The University of California, Santa Cruz acquired her private collection of works and memorabilia related to Dickens and Victorian literature, calling it the Ada Nisbet Archive.) Newman the Man (1960) (ed. by Elliot J. Kanter) British Comment on the United States: A Chronological Bibliography, 1832-1899 (2001)