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); ''

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'' (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

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to William E. and Esme C. Scobie, Gill attended Cardiff High School for Girls and graduated from

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at the

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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

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, Wellesley,

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, and

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, where she was a fellow of

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and director of the Women's Studies Program. 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. She married D. Michael Gill, a biochemist and university professor, on April 10, 1965. They had two children, Christopher and Catherine. She lives in the Boston area.

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 *

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, ''Speculum of the Other Woman'',

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, 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

*
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''). {{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Gillian British women writers American women writers 1942 births Living people 21st-century American women