Constance Hill

Born in 1844 and deceased on February 9, 1929, Constance Hill was an English author and editor remembered for biographical and historical writing, especially on literary figures. Surviving catalog and library records link her with a long run of books about writers and notable families, and public-domain listings confirm both her dates and the continued circulation of her work.

She is particularly associated with books such as Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends, Mary Russell Mitford and Her Surroundings, Maria Edgeworth and Her Circle in the Days of Buonaparte and Bourbon, Fanny Burney at the Court of Queen Charlotte, and The House in St. Martin's Street, about the Burney family. These titles show her favorite territory: the personal lives, homes, letters, and circles of well-known literary people.

Hill also worked as an editor, including on Frederic Hill: An Autobiography of Fifty Years in Times of Reform. Several editions of her books were illustrated by her sister, Ellen G. Hill, suggesting a close creative partnership that helped give her biographies their distinctive charm.