Behrens, (Catherine) Betty Abigail (1904–1989)
© Jonathan Steinberg
A historian of the Ancien Régime, Behrens is important for her influential rebuttal of Marxist analyses of the causes of the French Revolution.
- Forenames:
- (Catherine) Betty Abigail
- Surname:
- Behrens
- Dates:
- 1904–1989
- Institutions:
- University of Cambridge
(Newnham College, Clare College)
- Contemporaries:
- Carr, Edward Hallett
- Themes:
- Ancien Régime
History of France
- Biographies:
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Bibliography
Personal papers
Significant publications
- Betty Behrens, The Ancien Régime (London, 1967)
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