Rosemary Hill

Rosemary Hill FRSL, FSA (born 10 April 1957) is an English writer, historian and independent scholar who specialises on the cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Early life Hill was born on 10 April 1957 in London, England.

She studied English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1979. She achieved her PhD from the University of London in 2011. the Elizabeth Longford Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010.

Hill is a trustee of the Victorian Society, a contributing editor to the London Review of Books, and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. and her second was the architectural historian and journalist Gavin Stamp (1948–2017), whom she married on 10 April 2014.

Select publications Books: Stonehenge (Profile) (2008) God’s Architect: Pugin and the building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane) (2007)