Catherine M. Prelinger

Magill was born in New York City, the daughter of Roswell Magill and Katherine Deborah Biggins Magill. Her father was a tax lawyer and government official; her mother, also trained as a lawyer, was a University of Chicago alumna. Catherine Magill attended the Brearley School, earned her bachelor's degree at Vassar College in 1946, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. 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". Her dissertation advisor was Hajo Holborn. == 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. 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. She was on the faculty at Quinnipiac University from 1963 to 1970. == Publications ==

• "Benjamin Franklin and the American Prisoners of War in England during the American Revolution" (1975) • "Religious Dissent, Women's Rights, and the Hamburger Hochschule fuer das weibliche Geschlecht in mid-nineteenth-century Germany" (1976) • "Women and Religion, Women as Episcopalians: Some Methodological Observations" (1983) • ''Charity, Challenge, and Change: Religious Dimensions of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Women's Movement in Germany'' (1987) • "The Frauen-Zeitung (1849–52): Harmony and dissonance in mid-century German feminism" (1989) • Episcopal Women: Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Denomination (Religion in America) (1992, editor; published posthumously) == Personal life ==

Magill married twice. Her first husband was William Prescott Holden; they married in 1948, and had two daughters. Her second husband was Vienna-born psychotherapist Ernst Prelinger; they married in 1965. Catherine Magill Prelinger died from cancer in 1991, aged 66 years, in New Haven. 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." == References ==