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. Bertha Meriton Cordery was born in Hampstead, London on 19 April 1845, the youngest daughter of John and Henrietta Cordery. 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. On 15 July 1882 she married the historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner. 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) and The French Revolution, 1789-1795 (1883). The latter was a course textbook on the subject at Syracuse University.