C. B. A. Behrens | |
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| Born | Catherine Betty Abigail Behrens 24 April 1904 London, England |
| Died | 3 January 1989 (aged 84) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Radcliffe College |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
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Catherine Betty Abigail Behrens (24 April 1904 – 3 January 1989),[1] known as Betty Behrens and published as C. B. A. Behrens, was a British historian and academic. Her early interests included Henry VIII, Charles II, and the early modern period of English history. She later focused her research on the Ancien Régime (the Kingdom of France from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution).[2][3] She was elected a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge in 1935. She became a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge after the publication of The Ancien Régime (1967).[2] She "achieved an international reputation" with The Ancien Régime,[4] with reviews describing it as "remarkable and absorbing"[5] and "a lively, thought-provoking essay in historical revision".[6]
- ^ Steinberg, Jonathan (2004). "Behrens, (Catherine) Betty Abigail (1904–1989), historian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57114. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b Steinberg, Jonathan (2004). "Behrens, (Catherine) Betty Abigail (1904–1989)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57114. Retrieved 15 March 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Making History: Behrens, (Catherine) Betty Abigail (1904–1989)". Institute of Historical Research. University of London. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ Steinberg, Jonathan (16 January 1989). "C. B. A. Behrens". The Independent. No. 707. p. 24.
- ^ "How Not To Govern". The Economist. No. 6458. 3 June 1967. p. 1025.
- ^ Thomson, David (28 September 1967). "Chronic Decadence?". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 3422. p. 901.