Gillian Catherine Gill (''née'' Scobie, born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography.
[ She is the author of ''Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries'' (1990); ''Mary Baker Eddy'' (1998); ''Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale'' (2004); ''We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals'' (2009) and ''Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World'' (2019).
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Gill attended Cardiff High School for Girls and graduated from the ]University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
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with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin.["Keynote speakers"]
National Institute of Nursing Research. In March 1972 she obtained her Ph.D., also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled ''André Malraux: A Study of a Novelist''. After marrying, she emigrated to the United States and taught at Northeastern University
Northeastern University (NU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in Charlotte, North Ca ...
, Wellesley, Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
, and Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
, where she was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College
Jonathan Edwards College (informally JE) is a residential college at Yale University. It is named for theologian and minister Jonathan Edwards, a 1720 graduate of Yale College. JE's residential quadrangle was the first to be completed in Yale's ...
and director of the Women's Studies Program."Gill, Gillian"
Contemporary Authors, Highbeam Research.
Gill served as executive director of the Alliance of Independent Scholars, a member of board of directors for National Coalition of Independent Scholars, and is a member of the Modern Language Association of America. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow from 1981 to 1983.
Works
;Biographies
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Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries', Free Press, 1990.
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Mary Baker Eddy', Perseus Books, 1998.
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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Mods Florence Nightingale', Random House, 2004.
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We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals', Ballantine Books, 2009.
*''Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World'', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
;Translations
*
Luce Irigaray
Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. Irigaray's first and most well kn ...
, ''Speculum of the Other Woman'',
Cornell University Press
The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage. It was first established in 1869, making it the first university publishing enterprise in ...
, 1985.
*Luce Irigaray, ''Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche'', Columbia University Press, 1991.
*Luce Irigaray, ''An Ethics of Sexual Difference'', Cornell University Press, 1993.
*Luce Irigaray, ''Sexes and Genealogies'', Columbia University Press, 1993.
*Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, ''Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Notes
External links
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Interview with Gillian Gill Discussing Creativity, 2011 (video).
*Gill, Gillian
"Mrs. Eddy’s Voices" ''New York Review of Books'', June 29, 2000.
*Gill, Gillian
''The New York Times'', June 19, 2009.
;Reviews
*Jarvis, Claire
''New York Times'', December 20, 2019 (review of Gill's ''Virginia Woolf'').
*Leddy, Chuck
"The life, love of Britain’s Victorian power couple" ''Boston Globe'', September 5, 2009 (review of Gill's ''We Two'').
*Marshall, Megan
''The New York Times'', June 19, 2009 (review of Gill's ''Nightingales'').
*Moore, Charlotte
''The Daily Telegraph'', September 14, 2004 (review of Gill's ''Nightingales'').
*Mortimer, John
''The New York Times'', October 14, 1990 (review of Gill's ''Agatha Christie'').
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British women writers
American women writers
1942 births
Living people
21st-century American women