Gillian Catherine Gill (née Scobie, born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography.[1] 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 Gillian Catherine Scobie in Cardiff, Wales to William E. and Esme C. Scobie,[2] Gill attended Cardiff High School for Girls and graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin.[3][1] In March 1972, she obtained her Ph.D., also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled André Malraux: A Study of a Novelist.[4] After marrying, she emigrated to the United States and taught at Northeastern University, Wellesley, Harvard, and Yale, where she was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and director of the Women's Studies Program.[5]
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.[2]
She married D. Michael Gill, a biochemist and university professor, on April 10, 1965. They had two children, Christopher and Catherine.[2] She lives in the Boston area.[6]
Works
- Biographies
- Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, Free Press, 1990.
- Mary Baker Eddy, Perseus Books, 1998.
- Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Mods Florence Nightingale, Random House, 2004.
- 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, Speculum of the Other Woman, Cornell University Press, 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
- ^ a b "Keynote speakers", National Institute of Nursing Research.
- ^ a b c "Gill, Gillian 1942–". www.encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Notable alumnae". Murray Edwards College - University of Cambridge. 2015-08-03. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ^ "André Malraux", Newton Library Catalogue, University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Gill, Gillian", Contemporary Authors, Highbeam Research.
- ^ "Gillian Gill". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview with Gillian Gill, Discussing Creativity, 2011 (video).
- Gill, Gillian. "Mrs. Eddy’s Voices", New York Review of Books, June 29, 2000.
- Gill, Gillian. "Excerpt from We Two", The New York Times, June 19, 2009.
- Reviews
- Jarvis, Claire. "Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life", 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. "Married With Children", The New York Times, June 19, 2009 (review of Gill's Nightingales).
- Moore, Charlotte. "It was a life of constant wrestling", The Daily Telegraph, September 14, 2004 (review of Gill's Nightingales).
- Mortimer, John. "Murder Most Tidy", The New York Times, October 14, 1990 (review of Gill's Agatha Christie).
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