Rosemary Hill (born 10 April 1957)[1] is an English writer and historian.

Life

Hill has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century cultural history, but she is best known for God's Architect (2007), her biography of Augustus Pugin. The book won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize,[2][3] the Elizabeth Longford Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award. She is a trustee of the Victorian Society,[4] a contributing editor to the London Review of Books,[5] and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[4]

Hill has been married twice. Her first husband was the poet Christopher Logue (1926–2011), whom she married in 1985;[6] and her second was the architectural historian and journalist Gavin Stamp (1948–2017), whom she married on 10 April 2014.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 37, 10 April 2014
  2. ^ "List of James Tait Black Award Winners" Archived 2007-01-15 at the Wayback Machine University of Edinburgh website, accessed October 29, 2010
  3. ^ shortlisted for Guardian Award but did not win see Guardian
  4. ^ a b "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk.
  5. ^ "Rosemary Hill · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk.
  6. ^ Mark Espiner Obituary: Christopher Logue, The Guardian, 3 December 2011
  7. ^ Banns read in St Giles church Camberwell and St Augustines Crofton Park.

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