Gillian Gill

Gillian Catherine Gill (born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. She is the author of Agatha Christie (1990), Mary Baker Eddy (1998), Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale (2004), and We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals (2009). Gill (née Scobie) was born in Cardiff, Wales. She attended Cardiff High School for Girls, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin. She obtained her Ph.D. in March 1972, also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled André Malraux: A Study of a Novelist. She emigrated to the United States after marrying, 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.

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.

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.