Juliet McMaster

Juliet McMaster (born 1937) is a Canadian scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth-century English literature, a specialist in Jane Austen, and Full Professor at the University of Alberta.

Early life and education Juliet McMaster was born in Kenya in 1937, and is a descendant of the Victorian painter James Clarke Hook. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at St. Anne's College in Oxford. After emigrating to Canada in 1961,

Career McMaster joined the University of Alberta as an assistant professor of English in 1965. In addition to teaching literature and theatre studies, she also taught a fencing course in the theatre department.

McMaster was the founding President of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada in 1973. The following year, she republished her thesis through the University of Toronto Press into her first book titled Thackeray: The Major Novels. She also served as president of ACUTE (Association of Canadian University Teachers in English) from 1976 to 1978. The second novel, Jane Austen on Love was a short collection of essays on the theme of love in Austen's novels. In the same year as Jane Austen on Love was published, McMaster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Personal life An avid fencer, McMaster qualified for a place on Canada's fencing team in 1965, after placing second in the National fencing championships.

She is married to Rowland D. McMaster.

Books

Awards Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 1980 Killam Research Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts, 1987-1989 F.E.L. Priestley Award for best article in English Studies in Canada, 1989