My father, Norman Page, who has died aged 94, was a scholar of English literature. For more than three decades he edited a stream of academic books on literary figures and their work. He also wrote critical biographies of Thomas Hardy (1977), AE Housman (1983) and Muriel Spark (1990).
A lecturer by trade, Norman produced a volume on the language of Jane Austen and an account of the years that Christopher Isherwood and WH Auden spent together in Berlin.
