Bridget Hill (historian)
Bridget Irene Hill (15 April 1922 – 31 July 2002) was a feminist historian of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.[1]
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Born | Bridget Irene Sutton 15 April 1922 |
Died | 21 July 2002 |
Alma mater | London School of Economics |
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Early life
Hill was born Bridget Irene Sutton in Middlesex, the daughter of a Baptist minister.[2]
Education and politics
She went to school at Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith and attended university at the London School of Economics, studying economic history.[1] Hill joined the Communist Party during her time at the London School of Economics in World War II. She went to Prague on a scholarship in 1949. Both her first husband, Stephen Finney Mason (1923–2007), and her second husband, Christopher Hill (1912–2003) were both members of the Communist Party. Hill would later leave the Communist Party.[1]
Published works
Hill and her husband Christopher co-authored a paper entitled Catherine Macaulay and the Seventeenth Century in 1967 about the early female historian, Catherine Macaulay.[3] Hill published in 1992 a full book on Macaulay, entitled The Republican Virago.[4]
Hill's other works included Eighteenth Century Women: an Anthology (1984); Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England (1989); Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (1996), and Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850 (2001).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Rowbotham, Sheila (2006). "Hill [née Sutton], Bridget Irene, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/77170. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Prior, Mary (13 August 2002). "Bridget Hill". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ Hill, Christopher; Hill, Bridget. "Catherine Macaulay and the Seventeenth Century". Welsh History Review. 3.
- ^ Lisa Kasmer (16 January 2012). Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830. Fairleigh Dickinson. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-61147-496-1.
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