Claire Lamont (29 January 1942 – 9 April 2023) was a British academic who was Emeritus Professor of English literature at Newcastle University and a specialist in the oeuvres of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.
She worked at an antiquarian bookseller in London, then became a Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford,[3] matriculating in 1969.
[4] In 1970, Lamont edited and published Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as part of an Oxford University series of English novels.
Her introduction was well-received as elegantly written,[5] though her traditional, correct and unexceptionable account of the novel was criticised for not addressing its true import, namely the clash between Marianne Dashwood and her social suffocation by her sister and others.
[7] The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, work on which began in 1984 and continued until the publication in 2012 of the last two volumes in the series, was co-edited by Lamont.