Bridget Irene Hill (15 April 1922 – 31 July 2002) was a feminist historian of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Early life
Hill was born Bridget Irene Sutton in
Middlesex, the daughter of a Baptist minister.
Education and politics
She went to school at
Godolphin and Latymer School
The Godolphin and Latymer School is an independent day school for girls in Hammersmith, West London.
The school motto is an ancient Cornish phrase, ''Francha Leale Toge'', which translates as "free and loyal art thou". The school crest inclu ...
in
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
...
and attended university at the
London School of Economics, studying economic history.
Hill joined the
Communist Party during her time at the London School of Economics in
World War II. She went to
Prague on a scholarship in 1949. Both her first husband,
Stephen Finney Mason
Stephen Finney Mason FRS FRSC (6 July 1923 – 11 December 2007) was a British chemist and scientific historian.
Biography
Stephen Finney Mason was born in Leicestershire on 6 July 1923, the first child of Leonard Stephen Mason, a garage ...
(1923–2007), and her second husband,
Christopher Hill (1912–2003) were both members of the Communist Party. Hill would later leave the Communist Party.
Published works
Hill and her husband Christopher co-authored a paper entitled ''Catherine Macaulay and the Seventeenth Century'' in 1967 about the early female historian,
Catherine Macaulay. Hill published in 1992 a full book on Macaulay, entitled ''The Republican Virago''.
Hill's other works included ''Eighteenth Century Women: an Anthology'' (1984); ''Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England'' (1989); ''Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century'' (1996), and ''Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850'' (2001).
References
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1922 births
2002 deaths
Feminist historians
Alumni of the London School of Economics
20th-century British women writers
British historians
British women historians