Isobel Murray is a Scottish literary scholar, Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen.
She edited the work of Oscar Wilde and Naomi Mitchison.
She then went to the University of Aberdeen, where she became a senior lecturer and eventually professor.
The couple "formed a pair of literary lions, hosting memorable parties and discussions at their flat for guests such as novelists Archie Hind and William McIlvanney, who became the university’s first writer in residence at their suggestion.
"[1] Murray's 2000 biography of Jessie Kesson won the National Library of Scotland / Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year award.