Jane Barbara Stevenson (born 12 February 1959) is a British historian, literary scholar, and author.
Education and career Stevenson was born in London and brought up in London, Beijing and Bonn. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing that tripos in the upper second class in 1980.'Appendix V. Candidates who Took the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos between 1900 and 1999', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge [=Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Aberystwyth University, 2015), pp. 257–66 (p. 263). .
She went on to lecture in history at Sheffield University, and literature and history at the University of Aberdeen; from 2007 to 2017, she was Regius Professor of Humanity there. Since 2017, she has been Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford.
Selected works
Fiction
(original title Astraea London: Jonathan Cape, 2001) (original title The Pretender London: Jonathan Cape, 2002)
References
External links randomhouse.co.uk