Jane Stevenson (historian)
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Jane Barbara Stevenson (born 12 February 1959) is a British historian, literary scholar, and author.


Education and career

Stevenson was born in
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and brought up in London,
Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
and
Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...
. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at
Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...
, completing that
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in the upper second class in 1980. She went on to lecture in history at
Sheffield University The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 ...
, and literature and history at the
University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...
; from 2007 to 2017, she was Regius Professor of Humanity there. Since 2017, she has been Senior Research Fellow at
Campion Hall Campion Hall is one of the four permanent private halls of the University of Oxford in England. A Catholic hall, it is run by the Society of Jesus and named after Edmund Campion, a martyr and fellow of St John's College, Oxford. The hall is lo ...
, Oxford.


Selected works

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Fiction

* * * (original title ''Astraea'' London: Jonathan Cape, 2001) * (original title ''The Pretender'' London: Jonathan Cape, 2002) * *


References


External links


randomhouse.co.uk

Homepage at the University of Aberdeen
1959 births Living people 20th-century English historians 21st-century English historians Academics of the University of Aberdeen Academics of the University of Sheffield Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge English literary historians English women historians English women novelists Fellows of Campion Hall, Oxford Historians from London Historians of the early modern period Novelists from London Scholars of Latin literature British women literary historians {{UK-historian-stub