Betty Abigail Behrens

Catherine Betty Abigail Behrens, known as Betty Behrens and published as C. B. A. Behrens, was a British historian and academic. Her early interests included Henry VIII, Charles II, and the early modern period of English history. She later focused her research on the Ancien Régime. She was elected a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge in 1935. She became a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge after the publication of The Ancien Régime (1967). She "achieved an international reputation" with The Ancien Régime, with reviews describing it as "remarkable and absorbing" and "a lively, thought-provoking essay in historical revision".