Rosemary Hill Explained

Rosemary Hill (born 10 April 1957) 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,[1] [2] the Elizabeth Longford Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award. She is a trustee of the Victorian Society,[3] a contributing editor to the London Review of Books,[4] and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[3]

Hill has been married twice. Her first husband was the poet Christopher Logue (1926–2011), whom she married in 1985;[5] and her second was the architectural historian and journalist Gavin Stamp (1948–2017), whom she married on 10 April 2014.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbwins.htm "List of James Tait Black Award Winners"
  2. shortlisted for Guardian Award but did not win see Guardian
  3. Web site: All Souls College Oxford. www.asc.ox.ac.uk.
  4. Web site: Rosemary Hill · LRB. www.lrb.co.uk.
  5. Mark Espiner Obituary: Christopher Logue, The Guardian, 3 December 2011
  6. Banns read in St Giles church Camberwell and St Augustines Crofton Park.