Gillian Gill
Gillian Catherine Gill is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. She is the author of Agatha Christie, Mary Baker Eddy, Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale, and We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Gill attended Cardiff High School for Girls and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin. 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, Wellesley, Harvard, and Yale, where she was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and director of the Women's Studies Program.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.
