Stella Tillyard

Stella Tillyard FRSL (born 1957) is a British author and historian.

Education and career She was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. 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. 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.

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 2019: George IV: King in Waiting, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London 2018: The Great Level, Chatto & Windus, London; published in 2019 as Call Upon the Water, Atria Books, New York 2011: Tides of War. A Novel of the Peninsular War, Chatto & Windus, London. Danish translation available 2006: A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings, Chatto & Windus, London; also published as A Royal Affair: George III and his Scandalous Siblings, Random House, New York. Swedish translation available 1999: Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1997: Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798, Chatto & Windus, London. published in 1998 as Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York; Russian, Hungarian and Brazilian translations in preparation 1994: Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832, Chatto & Windus, London. 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

Professional activities 2019: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2016: Judge, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 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 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 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: "The Sea is Back" "Peak Stuff" 2018: BBC Radio 4, A Point of View: "Speak, History!" "Cities of the Dead" "A Problem with Words" "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 2014: "The Creaking of the Scenery", Writing Historical Fiction: The Writers & Artists Companion 2012: Introduction, Nancy Mitford, The Sun King 2008: "Biography and Modernity: some thoughts on origins", Writing Lives, Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England 2006: Introduction, James Boswell, London Journal 2006: "All our Pasts", TLS, October 2006. Reprinted in The Author, Spring 2007. 2006: "David Malouf", Prospect 2005: "Alan Hollinghurst", Prospect

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