Edna Purdie (1894 – 1968) was a British Emeritus Professor of German studies at the University of London.

She went on to study at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and King's College London.

By 1916, she was at Somerville College in Oxford researching literary ballads written in English.

[5] After Robertson's death, Purdie was his successor, and she completed his work on Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie which she published in 1939.

He complained to her that The Times newspaper was to stop its tradition of printing obituaries on its front page.