A book edited at Queen’s University recently received a distinctive international prize.

Benjamin Disraeli Letters, Volume 10: 1868 won the Robert Lowry Patten Award for the best recent study in 19th-century British literary studies. The award judges praised the book as “a monument to editorial excellence and a beacon of scholarship.”

The book emerged from the Disraeli Project at Queen’s, which drew to a close last year. Founded in 1975, the project was dedicated exclusively to collecting, researching, and annotating the correspondence, both political and personal, of former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

The award-winning 10th volume was edited by Michel Pharand, director of the Disraeli Project and general editor of the Benjamin Disraeli Letters series, with the assistance of co-editor Ellen L. Hawman, consulting editors Mary S. Millar and Sandra den Otter, and M. G. Wiebe, editor emeritus and former project director.

“I’m astounded and humbled,” Dr. Pharand says. “All of us are thrilled. Editors lurk behind the scenes in introductions and footnotes and appendices, so we’re delighted that our achievement has been recognized with such a distinguished award.”

Dr. Pharand will accept the award on Jan. 6 in Philadelphia at a reception hosted by the editors of SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.  

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