Susan Hill's career as a writer has taken some interesting and surprising turns since the publication of her first novel in 1961. The Enclosure was actually written when Hill was only about eighteen years old. Although she dismisses her first two...

Although her output has diminished since the early 1970s, Susan Hill remains a significant figure in the English literary scene. Her novels sell solidly and attract considerable critical attention; she has won several literary prizes. Conventionally...

Susan Morse Hilles, 96, a modern art collector who was among the first to appreciate the work of many contemporary artists, died Tuesday in Massachusetts General Hospital. Mrs. Hilles acquired much of her collection during the 1950s and 1960s, concentrating on living artists...

Dr Eric Anderson, 62, was born and brought up in Edinburgh. He began his teaching career at Fettes and later became headmaster of Eton. Now Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, he was recently appointed Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. He lives in...

A 20-year-old law student has become a cause celebre in the anti-abortion movement for her efforts to have the state Constitution define fertilized eggs as people — a tactic spreading nationwide in bids to neutralize the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.The measure spearheaded by...

A 20-year-old law student has become a cause celebre in the anti-abortion movement for her efforts to have the state Constitution define fertilized eggs as people — a tactic spreading nationwide in bids to neutralize the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.The measure spearheaded by...

In the following essay, Jackson approaches Hill's fiction in terms of a tension between detachment from and desire for life, identifying the idea of coldness as its "imaginative centre" and relating its principal themes and motifs to feminist concerns.

Below, Hofer provides an overview of Hill's fiction, tracing the movement away from an "enclosed" narrative structure to a more "open" one.

In the following essay, Schubert discusses the ways Hill's marginalized, often female characters illuminate the main themes of her fiction, especially in Gentleman and Ladies, A Change for the Better, and I'm the King of the Castle.