Catherine "Kitty" Magill Holden Prelinger (July 17, 1925 – August 31, 1991) was an American historian.
She was assistant editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers at Yale University, and president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians from 1975 to 1977.
[5] Catherine Magill attended the Brearley School,[6] earned her bachelor's degree at Vassar College in 1946,[7] and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
[23] Catherine Magill Prelinger died from cancer in 1991, aged 66 years, in New Haven.
[8] The CCWH Catherine Prelinger Memorial Award is a postdoctoral scholarship given by the Coordinating Council for Women in History, to "a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study.