Bertha Gardiner

'''Bertha Meriton Gardiner''' (1845–1925) was an English historian who wrote popular short books about The French Revolution and the English Civil War.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB |last1=Roots |first1=Ivan |title=Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1829–1902), historian |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33325 |isbn=978-0-19-861411-1 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33325 |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

Bertha Meriton Cordery was born in [[Hampstead]], London on 19 April 1845, the youngest daughter of John and Henrietta Cordery.<ref name="ODNB" /><ref name="Dover-obit">{{cite news |title=Death of Mrs S R Gardiner |publisher=Dover Express |date=16 January 1925}}</ref><ref name="Oxford-notice">{{cite news |title=Births Marriages and Deaths |publisher=Oxford Journal |date=22 July 1882}}</ref>

In 1875, Cordery co-authored ''King and Commonwealth, a history of the great rebellion'' with her brother-in-law James Surtees Philpotts. She researched the battlefields featured in the book herself.<ref name="Dover-obit" /> On 15 July 1882 she married the historian [[Samuel Rawson Gardiner]].<ref name="ODNB" />

As Bertha Gardiner, she wrote two books in the ''Epochs of English History'' series edited by Rev M Creighton: ''The Struggle Against Absolute Monarchy 1603-1688'' (1877)<ref name="gbook1">{{cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=Bertha Meriton |title=The Struggle Against Absolute Monarchy: 1603-1688 ... With Two Maps |date=1877 |publisher=Harper & Bros. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEhGAAAAYAAJ |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> and ''The French Revolution, 1789-1795'' (1883).<ref name="Dover-obit" /> The latter was a course textbook on the subject at [[Syracuse University]].<ref name="Gullason">{{cite book |last1=Gullason |first1=Thomas A. |title=Stephen Crane's Literary Family: A Garland of Writings |date=1 March 2002 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-2901-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPQ4sPwxCeAC&dq=%22Bertha+Gardiner%22&pg=PA5 |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

Gardiner also edited a collection of documents from [[Thomas Tanner (bishop)|Thomas Tanner]]'s manuscripts about [[Charles I of England|Charles I]]'s secret negotiations in 1643 and 1644.<ref name="ODNB" /> She wrote articles for the ''[[Edinburgh Review]]'', and was critical of [[John Robert Seeley]]'s methods in a review.<ref name="Dover-obit" /><ref name="Wormell">{{cite book |last1=Wormell |first1=Deborah |title=Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History |date=6 March 1980 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-22720-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSM9AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Bertha+Gardiner%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA90 |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Nolan">{{cite book |last1=Nolan |first1=Melanie |title=Biography: An Historiography |date=3 April 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-429-76083-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KgSqEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bertha%20Gardiner%22%20-wikipedia&pg=PT85 |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

Gardiner had three sons with her husband before she was widowed in 1902.<ref name="Dover-obit" /> She died on 5 January 1925 at the Red House, River, [[Dover]].<ref name="ODNB" />

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{gutenberg author|56332}} (''King and Commonwealth, a history of the Great rebellion''; ''The French Revolution 1789-1795'')

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