Stella Tillyard

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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]

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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.

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  5. Tillyard, Stella (2018). The Great Level. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   978-0701183196. OCLC   993638073.
  6. Tillyard, Stella (2019). Call Upon the Water (First Atria Books hardcover ed.). New York: Atria Books. ISBN   9781982120962. OCLC   1117469697.
  7. Tillyard, Stella (2012). Tides of war. London: Vintage. ISBN   9780099526421. OCLC   761378945.
  8. Tillyard, Stella (2006). A royal affair: George III and his troublesome siblings. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   9780701173067. OCLC   426051659.
  9. Tillyard, Stella (2006). A royal affair: George III and his scandalous siblings (1st ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN   140006371X. OCLC   65400824.
  10. Tillyard, Stella (1999). Aristocrats: the illustrated companion to the television series. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   0297825054. OCLC   45284840.
  11. Tillyard, Stella (1997). Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763–1798. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN   0701165383. OCLC   37016377.
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