Jane Stevenson (historian)

For the British politician, see Jane Stevenson (politician).

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.^{[ citation needed ]} She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing that tripos in the upper second class in 1980. ^[1]

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. ^[2] Since 2017, she has been Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford. ^[3]

Selected works

• Stevenson, Jane; Davidson, Peter, eds. (1997). The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt., Opened. London: Prospect Books. ISBN   978-0907325765.
• Stevenson, Jane; Davidson, Peter, eds. (2001). Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0198184263.
• Stevenson, Jane (2005). Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0198185024.
• Stevenson, Jane (2007). Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN   978-0224078757.
• Stevenson, Jane (2018). Baroque between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198808770.
• Stevenson, Jane (2021). The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico Da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. London: Head of Zeus. ISBN   9781800241978.
• Stevenson, Jane (2022). Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period. Leiden: Brill. ISBN   9789004529755.

Fiction

• Stevenson, Jane (1999). Several Deceptions. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN   978-0224059398.
• Stevenson, Jane (2000). London Bridges. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN   978-0224059404.
• Stevenson, Jane (2002). The Winter Queen . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN   978-0618149124. (original title Astraea London: Jonathan Cape, 2001)
• Stevenson, Jane (2003). The Shadow King. Boston, MA: Clarion Books. ISBN   978-0618149131. (original title The Pretender London: Jonathan Cape, 2002)
• Stevenson, Jane (2003). The Empress Of The Last Days. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN   978-0224061421.
• Stevenson, Jane (2005). Good Women. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN   978-0224073516.

References

1. '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). ISBN   978-0-9557182-9-8.
2. "Stevenson, Prof. Jane Barbara, (Mrs P. R. K. A. Davidson)". Who's Who 2018 . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U246049.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
3. "Jane.Stevenson Fellow Page". Campion Hall. Retrieved 22 March 2019.

External links

• randomhouse.co.uk
• Homepage at the University of Aberdeen