Pilbeam, Pamela M.

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PILBEAM, Pamela M.

PERSONAL:

Born in England; daughter of Sidney (a welder) and Alice May (a worker in a pot factory) Cartlidge; married Stephen Pilbeam (a life guard trainer), 1967; children: Natalya, Rhys, Llewellyn. Ethnicity: "British." Education: University College, University of London, Ph.D., 1966. Religion: "Pagan." Hobbies and other interests: Swimming, cycling.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of London, Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, England, professor of French history.

MEMBER:

Royal Historical Society (fellow).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fulbright fellow; awards from French government.

WRITINGS:

The Middle Classes in Europe, 1789-1914: France, Germany, Italy, and Russia, Lyceum Books (Chicago, IL), 1990.

The French Revolution of 1830, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1991.

Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814-1871, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1995.

(Editor) Themes in Modern European History, 1780-1830, Routledge (New York, NY), 1995.

The Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-1848, Longman (New York, NY), 1999.

French Socialists before Marx: Workers, Women, and the Social Question in France, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 2000.

Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks, Hambledon & London (New York, NY), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Research on "cross-Channel perceptions."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Contemporary Review, July, 2001, review of The Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-1848, p. 62.

Labour/Le Travail, spring, 2002, David Gregory, review of French Socialists before Marx: Workers, Women, and the Social Question in France, p. 331.

Nineteenth-Century French Studies, fall, 2002, Claudia Moscovici, review of French Socialists before Marx, p. 153.

Utopian Studies, spring, 2001, Leslie Jean Roberts, review of French Socialists before Marx, p. 357.