Veronica Wedgwood | |
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Born | Cicely Veronica Wedgwood 20 July 1910 Stocksfield, England |
Died | 9 March 1997 London, England | (aged 86)
Occupation | Historian |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
Period | 1935–1987 |
Subject | 17th century Europe |
Notable works | The Thirty Years War (1938) |
Partner | Jacqueline Hope-Wallace |
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Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, OM, DBE, FBA, FRHistS (20 July 1910 – 9 March 1997) was an English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood. Specializing in the history of 17th-century England and continental Europe, her biographies and narrative histories are said to have provided a clear, entertaining middle ground between popular and scholarly works.