Margaret Belcher

She was educated at Rangi Ruru Girls' School, a private academy in Christchurch, and then at Canterbury University College, a constituent college of the University of New Zealand, where she obtained an MA in English.

She won a scholarship to study at St Hugh's College, Oxford from 1958 to 1960 before returning to what had become in her absence the University of Canterbury where she completed her doctorate.

Pugin in relation to the mediaevalist tradition in Victorian literature : together with a bibliography of publications by and about him.

[2] Belcher joined the staff of the University of Canterbury in 1962, eventually becoming senior lecturer in the English department.

She began to edit his letters in 1987,[1] a work that eventually ran to five volumes from 2001 to 2015.