Background
Gill (née Scobie) was born in Cardiff, Wales.
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Gillian Gill
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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 Doctor of Philosophy in March 1972, also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled André Malraux: A Study of a Novelist.
Career
She is the author of Agatha Christie (1990), Mary Baker Eddy (1998), Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Mission Florence Nightingale (2004), and We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals (2009). 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.
