Catherine M. Prelinger

Catherine M. Prelinger
Born
Catherine E. Magill

July 17, 1925
New York City, U.S.
DiedAugust 31, 1991 (aged 66)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Other namesCatherine Magill Holden
Occupation(s)Historian, editor
Spouse(s)William Prescott Holden, Ernst Prelinger
ParentRoswell Magill

Catherine "Kitty" Magill Holden Prelinger (July 17, 1925 – August 31, 1991) was an American historian. She was assistant editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers at Yale University, and president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians from 1975 to 1977.

Early life and education

Magill was born in New York City, the daughter of Roswell Magill and Katherine Deborah Biggins Magill.[1][2] Her father was a tax lawyer and government official;[3] her mother, also trained as a lawyer,[4] was a University of Chicago alumna.[5] Catherine Magill attended the Brearley School,[6] earned her bachelor's degree at Vassar College in 1946,[7] and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[8] She completed doctoral studies in history at Yale University in 1954, with a dissertation titled "A Decade of Dissent in Germany: An Historical Study of the Society of Protestant Friends and the German Catholic Church, 1840-1848".[9] Her dissertation advisor was Hajo Holborn.[10]

Career

At Yale, Prelinger was assistant editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers. She was also a research associate and visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School.[11][12] She was president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians from 1975 to 1977, and co-chair of the Coordinating Council for Women in History from 1980 to 1982.[13][14] She was on the faculty at Quinnipiac University from 1963 to 1970.[15]

Publications

  • "Benjamin Franklin and the American Prisoners of War in England during the American Revolution" (1975)[16]
  • "Religious Dissent, Women's Rights, and the Hamburger Hochschule fuer das weibliche Geschlecht in mid-nineteenth-century Germany" (1976)[17]
  • "Women and Religion, Women as Episcopalians: Some Methodological Observations" (1983)[12]
  • "Prelude to Consciousness: Amalie Sieveking and the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick" (1984)[18]
  • Charity, Challenge, and Change: Religious Dimensions of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Women's Movement in Germany (1987)[19]
  • "The Frauen-Zeitung (1849–52): Harmony and dissonance in mid-century German feminism" (1989)[20]
  • Episcopal Women: Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Denomination (Religion in America) (1992, editor; published posthumously)[21]

Personal life

Magill married twice. Her first husband was William Prescott Holden; they married in 1948,[6][22] and had two daughters. Her second husband was Vienna-born psychotherapist Ernst Prelinger; they married in 1965.[23] Catherine Magill Prelinger died from cancer in 1991, aged 66 years, in New Haven.[8] The CCWH Catherine Prelinger Memorial Award is a postdoctoral scholarship given by the Coordinating Council for Women in History, to "a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study."[13]

References

  1. ^ "Births". The University of Chicago Magazine. 18: 472. July 1926.
  2. ^ "Catherine Magill Connecticut Bride" The New York Times (July 18, 1948): 50. via Times Machine.
  3. ^ "ROSWELL MAGILL, LAWYER, 68, DEAD; Tax Expert Was Ex-Under Secretary of Treasury Also Taught in Chicago Alumnus of Dartmouth". The New York Times. 1963-12-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  4. ^ "Treasury Post Goes to Son of New Deal Foe". Chicago Tribune. 1937-01-23. p. 23. Retrieved 2022-04-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ University of Chicago (1915). Annual Register. 1893-1930. p. 769.
  6. ^ a b "Miss Magill Affianced; Vassar Graduate Will Be Bride of William Prescott Holden". The New York Times. June 25, 1948. p. 28 – via Times Machine.
  7. ^ "World Federation Forum Discussed". Vassar Chronicle. May 4, 1946. p. 4. Retrieved April 19, 2022 – via Vassar Newspaper and Magazine Archive.
  8. ^ a b "C. M. Prelinger, 66, Author and Historian". The New York Times. 1991-09-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  9. ^ "Dissertations by year, 1950-1959". Department of History, Yale University. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  10. ^ D. A. U. (1970). "Hajo Holborn's Students". Central European History. 3 (1/2): 187–191. doi:10.1017/S0008938900015211. ISSN 0008-9389. JSTOR 4545568. S2CID 246877856.
  11. ^ "Catherine Prelinger". Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  12. ^ a b Prelinger, Catherine M. (1983). "Women and Religion, Women as Episcopalians: Some Methodological Observations". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 52 (2): 141–152. ISSN 0018-2486. JSTOR 42973957.
  13. ^ a b "Prelinger Award". Coordinating Council for Women in History. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  14. ^ "Women's Place in History Left Out". The Newark Advocate. 1980-02-04. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-04-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Catherine Prelinger; historian, teacher". Hartford Courant. 1991-09-04. p. 35. Retrieved 2022-04-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Prelinger, Catherine M. (1975). "Benjamin Franklin and the American Prisoners of War in England during the American Revolution". The William and Mary Quarterly. 32 (2): 261–294. doi:10.2307/1921564. ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 1921564.
  17. ^ Prelinger, Catherine M. (March 1976). "Religious Dissent, Women's Rights, and the Hamburger Hochschule fuer das weibliche Geschlecht in mid-nineteenth-century Germany". Church History. 45 (1): 42–55. doi:10.2307/3164564. ISSN 1755-2613. JSTOR 3164564. S2CID 161068886.
  18. ^ Prelinger, Catherine M. "Prelude to Consciousness: Amalie Sieveking and the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick." German Woman in the Nineteenth Century. A Social History. New York & London: Holmes and Meier (1984).
  19. ^ Prelinger, Catherine M. (1987). Charity, challenge, and change : religious dimensions of the mid-nineteenth-century women's movement in Germany. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25401-X. OCLC 14069265.
  20. ^ Prelinger, Catherine M. (1989-01-01). "The Frauen-Zeitung (1849–52): Harmony and dissonance in mid-century German feminism". History of European Ideas. 11 (1–6): 245–251. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(89)90213-1. ISSN 0191-6599.
  21. ^ Prelinger, Catherine M. (1992). Episcopal women : gender, spirituality, and commitment in an American mainline denomination. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510465-X. OCLC 182530787.
  22. ^ "William Prescott Holden Weds Miss Catherine Magill in Weston, Conn". The Boston Globe. 1948-07-18. p. 94. Retrieved 2022-04-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Ernst Prelinger Obituary (1926 - 2021)". New Haven Register, via Legacy.com. December 17, 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-19.