Stella Tillyard

Stella Tillyard FRSL (born 1957) ^[1] is a British author and historian, educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1999 her bestselling book Aristocrats was made into a six-part series for BBC1/Masterpiece Theatre sold to over 20 countries. Winner of the Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Longman/History Today Prize and the Fawcett Prize, she has taught at Harvard; the University of California, Los Angeles; Birkbeck, London and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, London. ^[2] She is a visiting professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ^[3]

Personal life

Tillyard moved to the United States in 1981 and has lived for long periods in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Florence. In 2006 she moved to London. She campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU. She divides her time between London and Italy. She has two children.

Books

• 2024: (as translator), In Defense of Don Giovanni: A Feminist Mythobiography, by Luisa Passerini, Punctum Books, California ^[4]
• 2019: George IV: King in Waiting, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London ^[5]
• 2018: The Great Level, Chatto & Windus, London; ^[6] published in 2019 as Call Upon the Water, Atria Books, New York ^[7]
• 2011: Tides of War. A Novel of the Peninsular War, Chatto & Windus, London. ^[8] Danish translation available
• 2006: A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings, Chatto & Windus, London; ^[9] Published in New York as A Royal Affair. George III and his Scandalous Siblings, Random House. ^[10] Swedish translation available
• 1999: Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London ^[11]
• 1997: Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798, Chatto & Windus, London. ^[12] Russian, Hungarian and Brazilian translations in preparation
• 1994: Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832, Chatto & Windus, London. ^[13] Reprinted by the Folio Society, 2008, with a new introduction. Translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish
• 1987: The Impact of Modernism, 1900-1920: The Visual Arts in Edwardian England , Routledge, London ^[14]

Professional activities

• 2019: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ^[3]
• 2016: Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London ^[15]
• 2016: Judge, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year ^[16]
• 2013: Judge, Hesell-Tiltman History Prize for English PEN
• 2010: Judge, Samuel Johnson Prize
• 2010-14: Judge, Prison Reform Trust writing competition
• 2009: Writer in Residence, Farmleigh, Dublin ^[17]
• 2006-11: Senior Research Fellow, AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London
• 2002: Judge, Whitbread Prize
• 1999-2000/2005-6: Columnist, Prospect magazine

Prizes and awards

• 2012: Orange Prize long list, Tides of War
• 1999: Meilleur Livre Etranger, Aristocrats
• 1997: Whitbread Prize biography short list, Citizen Lord
• 1995: Fawcett Prize, Aristocrats ^[18]
• 1994: Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, Aristocrats
• 1988: Nicholas Pevsner Prize
• 1981-2: Knox Fellowship, Harvard University
• 1979-81: Domus Student, Linacre College, Oxford

Film and television

• 2012: "A Royal Affair", Denmark 2012
• 2009: Deutsches Radio TV documentary, "A Royal Affair"
• 2008: "Library Late", National Library, Dublin
• 2000: "The Making of Aristocrats". One-hour documentary interview. BBC Education
• 1999: Aristocrats BBC/WGBH 6 part Co-Production with Screen Ireland, for BBC1 and Masterpiece Theatre

Radio

• 2019: BBC Radio4, A Point of View:
  1. "The Sea is Back"
  2. "Peak Stuff"
• 2018: BBC Radio 4, A Point of View: 
  1. "Speak, History!"
  2. "Cities of the Dead"
  3. "A Problem with Words"
  4. "The Museum of Deportation"
• 2017: BBC Radio 4, A Point of View: "The Screensaver of Life, or the Idling Brain"
• 2014: BBC Radio 4 on the Georgians
• 2012: Woman's Hour, Radio 4, "Female Academicians"
• 2012: Today, Radio 4, "The History of Fame and Celebrity"
• 2011: BBC Radio 3, "Private Passions"

Recent articles and introductions

• 2014: Introduction, Jan Morris, The Venetian Empire ^[19]
• 2014: "The Creaking of the Scenery", Writing Historical Fiction: The Writers & Artists Companion ^[20]
• 2012: Introduction, Nancy Mitford, The Sun King ^[21]
• 2008: "Biography and Modernity: some thoughts on origins", Writing Lives, Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England ^[22]
• 2006: Introduction, James Boswell, London Journal
• 2006: "All our Pasts", TLS, October 2006. Reprinted in The Author, Spring 2007. ^[23]
• 2006: "David Malouf", Prospect ^[24]
• 2005: "Alan Hollinghurst", Prospect ^[25]

Catalogue essays

• 2015: "Newfoundland", the work of Romilly Saumarez Smith, Edmund de Waal Studio; Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
• 2005: "Paths of Glory: Fame and the Public in Eighteenth Century London", Joshua Reynolds and the Creation of Celebrity, Tate Britain, London

Recent talks

• 2019: "The Hanoverians: when Germans spoke French in St James's", Europe House, London
• 2017: "History and the Historical Novel", Warwick University
• 2017: "Female Celebrity, Feminism and Celebrity Culture", Oxford University
• 2016: "Opera and the Historical Novel", Royal Holloway, London
• 2015: "Tony Small; an African American in Ireland", Dublin Festival of History
• 2015: "Collecting the World; How Global Art came to Ireland in the Eighteenth Century", Art Institute of Chicago
• 2015: "Hollywood and the Eighteenth Century", ASECS Conference, Los Angeles
• 2015: "Two Irish Interiors", Northwestern University
• 2015: "Celebrity and the Plain Portrait in the Eighteenth Century", King's College, London, February
• 2014: "History and the Historical Novel", Warwick University, 14 January

References

1. Debrett's: Retrieved 8 May 2011.
2. "Biography | Stella Tillyard: Novelist and Historian". www.stellatillyard.com. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
3. "Royal Society of Literature » Stella Tillyard". rsliterature.org. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
4. Passerini, Luisa (2024). In Defense of Don Giovanni: A Feminist Mythobiography. translated by Stella Tillyard (First English translation ed.). Goleta, California: Punctum Books. ISBN   9781685711450.
5. Tillyard, Stella (2019). George IV: King in Waiting. Penguin Monarchs. London: Penguin. ISBN   9780141978857. OCLC   1065317762.
6. Tillyard, Stella (2018). The Great Level. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   978-0701183196. OCLC   993638073.
7. Tillyard, Stella (2019). Call Upon the Water (First Atria Books hardcover ed.). New York: Atria Books. ISBN   9781982120962. OCLC   1117469697.
8. Tillyard, Stella (2012). Tides of war. London: Vintage. ISBN   9780099526421. OCLC   761378945.
9. Tillyard, Stella (2006). A royal affair: George III and his troublesome siblings. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   9780701173067. OCLC   426051659.
10. Tillyard, Stella (2006). A royal affair: George III and his scandalous siblings (1st ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN   140006371X. OCLC   65400824.
11. Tillyard, Stella (1999). Aristocrats: the illustrated companion to the television series. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   0297825054. OCLC   45284840.
12. Tillyard, Stella (1997). Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763–1798. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   0701165383. OCLC   37016377.
13. Tillyard, Stella (1995) [1994]. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   0701159332. OCLC   32394110.
14. "The Impact of Modernism, 1900–1920". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
15. "Visiting and emeritus staff — Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London". www.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
16. "Past Years". Young Writer of the Year Award. 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
17. "Writer-in-Residence | Farmleigh" . Retrieved 13 October 2019.
18. Tillyard, Stella. "Aristocrats". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
19. Morris, Jan. "The Venetian Empire". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
20. Brayfield, Celia; Sprott, Duncan (5 December 2013). Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers' and Artists' Companion. A&C Black. ISBN   9781780938387.
21. Mitford, Nancy. "The Sun King". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
22. Sharpe, Kevin; Zwicker, Steven N, eds. (12 January 2012). Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199698233.001.0001. ISBN   9780191803772.
23. "All out pasts". TheTLS. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
24. Tillyard, Stella. "Points of departure" . Retrieved 13 October 2019.
25. Tillyard, Stella. "Alan Hollinghurst" . Retrieved 13 October 2019.