Edith Margaret Dalziel CBE (21 November 1916 – 5 May 2003) was an English literature scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Dalziel was a frequent correspondent with Karl Popper and his wife Hennie from their time together at the University of Canterbury, and was thanked in the acknowledgments of his seminal work The Open Society and Its Enemies for assisting in the preparation of drafts and the final manuscript.
In 1971 she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Arts; she was Pro-Vice Chancellor from 1975 to 1977; and Head of Department of English from 1978 to 1980.
Her family remembers her as an indomitable champion of women's rights in academia and a trailblazer for academic leadership.
[7] In the 1976 New Year Honours, Dalziel was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to education and literature.