Background
Stevenson, Jane Barbara was born on February 12, 1959 in London, England. Daughter of John Lynn Stevenson and Winifred Mary Temple.
(Set in the Netherlands in the 1640s, Astraea tells of the...)
Set in the Netherlands in the 1640s, Astraea tells of the relationship between two royal exiles, Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of James I, and Omoloju/Pelagius, erstwhile heir to the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, now a freed slave with shamanic gifts. They meet, fall in love, and marry clandestinely. Secretly, Elizabeth gives birth to a bay Balthasar Stuart, whom both come to see as a hope for a new age. As ever with Stevenson's work, Astraea appeals to both the head and the heart. An utterly convincing picture of seventeenth-century life and politics, it is also an immensely moving account of a strange, magical love affair.
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( SEVERAL DECEPTIONS, Jane Stevenson's brilliant and high...)
SEVERAL DECEPTIONS, Jane Stevenson's brilliant and highly acclaimed novella collection, was an outstanding literary debut. Now, with her first novel, she again offers readers a work of dazzling intelligence, elegant wit, and keen social observation. An affectionate homage to the classic English detective story, LONDON BRIDGES is set in 1990s London and crafted with a very modern spin. Its plot centers on a treasure lost in the Blitz and newly discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer, who is tempted by greed into a series of crimes leading to murder. A highly contemporary cast of characters assembles to confound him, including a charming and flamboyant gay classicist in hot pursuit of a sixth-century homoerotic poem he hopes will revive his flagging career, a young Indian lawyer fighting British prejudices of race and class, and a very nice dog named Alice. The main character, lovingly depicted, is London itself, in all its rich variousness. Among the novel's themes are the rewards of friendship and community. the imperatives of both preservation and change, and the intertwining, with unexpected effects, of lives in a great city. A lighthearted work shadowed by moments of genuine pathos, LONDON BRIDGES is wonderfully entertaining. It will captivate readers with its high-spirited, stylish storytelling and playful scholarship.
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(Women Latin Poets addresses women's relationship to cultu...)
Women Latin Poets addresses women's relationship to culture between the first century B.C. and the eighteenth century A.D. by studying women's poetry in Latin. Based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, Stevenson recovers an aspect of history often deemed not to exist: women who achieved public recognition in their own time, sometimes to a startling extent. Presenting, often for the first time, the work of more than three hundred women Latin poets, all translated and included in a comprehensive finding guide, Women Latin Poets substantially revises received opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, élite culture. The sheer number of female Latin poets will require women's historians to completely re-evaluate the idea that all women had "no access to education" before the nineteenth century.
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Stevenson, Jane Barbara was born on February 12, 1959 in London, England. Daughter of John Lynn Stevenson and Winifred Mary Temple.
Master of Arts, Newnham College, Cambridge, England, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, Newnham College, Cambridge, England, 1985.
Drapers' research fellow Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1985—1988. Lecturer history University Sheffield, England, 1988—1995. Interdisciplinary senior research fellow University Warwick, Coventry, England, 1995—2000.
Reader english University Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2000—2002, professor Latin and renaissance studies Scotland, 2002—2007, Regius professor humanity Scotland, since 2007.
(Set in the Netherlands in the 1640s, Astraea tells of the...)
( SEVERAL DECEPTIONS, Jane Stevenson's brilliant and high...)
(Women Latin Poets addresses women's relationship to cultu...)
Fellow: Society Antiquaries Scotland. Member: Henry Bradshaw Society for the Publication of Rare Liturgical Texts.
Married Peter Robert Keith Andrew Davidson, December 20, 1989.