Georgiana Hill
Georgiana Hill (8 December 1858 – 29 March 1924), was a British social historian, journalist, and women's rights activist.[1] Georgiana published A History of English Dress from the Saxon Period to the Present Day in 1893, a "classic example of the cultural and social history publications characteristic of late nineteenth-century amateur women historians", in which she consistently criticised fashions that were uncomfortable, ostentatious or impractical.[2] She has been called a "successor to the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green, and the foremother of Alice Clark and Eileen Power".[1] For much of the twentieth century Hill's identity and work was conflated with that of her namesake, Georgiana Hill, the cookery book writer:[3] the historian Joan Thirsk, in her introduction to Women in English Society, 1500–1800 (1985) discusses the social historian as having "extraordinary success as an author [that] started with her cookery books which sold cheaply ... and in very large numbers".[4] In 2014 the historian Rachel Rich wrote the entry for Georgiana Hill (the cookery book writer) for inclusion in the Dictionary of National Biography.