Jane Stevenson

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.

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)