Hull, Suzanne W. 1921-2006
(Suzanne White Hull)

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See index for CA sketch: Born August 24, 1921, in Orange, NJ; died of complications from cancer, May 8, 2006, in Park City, UT. Administrator, librarian, and author. A longtime director at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, Hull was also a noted authority on sixteenth-and seventeenth-century cultural studies of women in England. Graduating in 1943 from Swarthmore College, she worked briefly in insurance, as a secretary at the Save the Children Foundation in New York, and as a news stringer for the Los Angeles Times. She then focused on life as a wife and mother before going back to school to earn a master's in library science at the University of Southern California in 1967. Hull embarked on a library career, first as a substitute librarian for two years, and then as a staff member of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. Here, she was promoted to director of public administration and director of education, the first woman to attain such leadership roles at that library. Hull was also a scholar, and her interest in women's studies regarding life in Tudor and Stewart England led to two publications: Chaste, Silent, and Obedient: English Books for Women, 1475- 1640 (1982) and Women according to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women (1996). Hull retired from the Huntington Library in 1986.

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Los Angeles Times, May 17, 2006, p. B11.