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Gillian Gill

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[edit]

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.

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External links[edit]

• AppearancesonC-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).