Rea Wilmshurst

{{Short description|Canadian editor (1941–1996)}}

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Rea Wilmshurst (10 August 1941 – 22 March 1996) was an editor for the author L. M. Montgomery.{{cite web  |author= |date= |title=Books by Rea Wilmshurst |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/343708.Rea_Wilmshurst |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=Goodreads |publisher= |quote=}}{{cite web  |author= |date= |title=Montgomery Wilmshurst Rea |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/author/montgomery-wilmshurst-rea/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=AbeBooks |publisher= |quote=}}

She graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in English in 1970. She went on to edit eight volumes of Lucy Maud Montgomery's previously unknown short stories and publish them through McClelland & Stewart.{{cite web  |author= |date= |title=Books and Other Works by L. M. Montgomery |url=https://lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com/short-stories-by-lm-montgomery.html |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=L. M. Montgomery Literary Society |publisher= |quote=}} In 1985, she published a bibliography of Montgomery's short stories, poems, and articles.

Wilmshurst was also an editorial assistant for the projects that compiled the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill and the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.{{cite web  |author= |date= |title=In Memoriam: Rea Wilmshurst 1941-1996 (page 12) |url=https://vsao.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1996-VSAO-Newsletter-Number-57-Spring-1996-31-pages.pdf |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=Victorian Studies Association of Ontario |publisher= |quote=}}

She was a daughter of Mildred Rea and Harry Wilmshurst of Toronto, and granddaughter of Fred and Azilda Rea, of Reas Cigars, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.