Hilda L. Smith (1941-2023) was an American historian.

Smith was an undergraduate at Missouri State University, trained as a high school teacher, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1975.^[1] Her dissertation was titled Feminism in Seventeenth-century England.^[2]

Smith was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park where she was a humanities administrator.^[1] In 1987, she joined the University of Cincinnati.^[1] She specialized in the gender analysis of political theory and intellectual history and the "political, philosophical, and scientific writings of early modern women.^[1]

Selected works

• Smith, Hilda L. (1982). Reason's Disciples: Seventeenth-century English Feminists. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-00912-9.^[3]
• Smith, Hilda L., ed. (1998). Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58509-5.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}
• Smith, Hilda L.; Carroll, Berenice A., eds. (2000). Women's Political & Social Thought: An Anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33758-0.
• Smith, Hilda L. (2010). All Men and Both Sexes: Gender, Politics, and the False Universal in England, 1640-1832. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04604-4.
• Smith, Hilda L.; Zook, Melinda S., eds. (2018). Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-77568-5.

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