Kathleen Mary Tillotson
British textual critic
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Kathleen Mary Tillotson was a British textual critic. Textual criticism is the study of literary works that aims to establish the original text. A textual critic is a practitioner of this field. Tillotson was involved in editing texts, notably publishing an edition of Dickens's Oliver Twist in 1966, which was the first to be founded on a critical study of textual evidence. This work contributed to the ongoing efforts in textual criticism to restore writings as closely as possible to their original form.123
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