Fonds F0279 - Dr. Lorne MacDonald fonds.

David Lorne Macdonald was born on 24 February 1955 in Toronto, Ontario. He completed his B.A. at the University of Toronto and completed his M.A. at the University of London. He received his PhD. from the University of Toronto, completing his dissertation entitled “Corsairs of Hearts: Byron and Stevens as Romantic Ironist” in 1983. He was a post doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia before joining the Department of English at the University of Calgary in 1991.

Dr. Macdonald was a respected scholar of British literature of the Romantic period, and he was recognized as a biographer and as a textual editor. He wrote and edited numerous books, including individual biographies of Polidori, Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of “The Vampyre,” (1991) and of Matthew Gregory Lewis, Monk Lewis: A Critical Biography (2000). With Kathleen Scherf he edited a highly successful edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Frankenstein (1994, second edition 1999), which provided the template for the entire Broadview Editions series. His final work was a collaborative project, The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period (2010), which came out shortly after his death.

Dr. D. Lorne Macdonald passed away on 14 January 2010 following a brief illness.