Christine Elizabeth Florence Greenhill was born in Paris in 1907 to a family of hoteliers. Greenhill was introduced to bookbinding by Oswald Powell, father of the eminent bookbinder Roger Powell, when at the Bedales School. She then took several art courses in Paris and in London. Having established her own workshop, she went on to become a prominent designer bookbinder and teacher of the art. In 1961 she was the first woman to be elected to the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders (now Designer Bookbinders), where she also served as honorary secretary and then president. She funded a prize for excellence in gold tooling in the annual Bookbinding Competition. Her work - often on display at national and international exhibitions - included bindings for T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Sigfried Sassoon's The Path to Peace, Albrecht Dürer's The Little Passion, Sir John Rothenstein's British Art since 1900, Hough Honour's Chinoiserie and The Royal Record, Coronation Planting Committee (owned by H.M. The Queen). Greenhill died in 2006, four months short of her 100th birthday.