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Gillian Gill

b. 1942

Welsh-American writer and academic

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Born 1942. Gillian Gill is an American and British writer.

Gillian Catherine Gill (née Scobie, born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. In March 1972, she obtained her Ph.D., also from Cambridge, for her thesis 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.

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.

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 Miss 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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Welsh-American writer and academic

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Gillian Gill was born on 12 June 1942 in Cardiff.

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Gillian Gill is a writer.

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Gillian Gill is American and British.

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