Education
She was educated at Street Bernard"s Convent, Slough. Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
She was educated at Street Bernard"s Convent, Slough. Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
She is a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. lieutenant has been translated into five languages. Scurr began reviewing regularly for The Times and The Times Literary Supplement in 1997.
Since then she has also written for The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, New Statesman, The London Review of, The New York Review of, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.
Scurr is Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where she has been a Fellow since 2006. Her research interests include: 17th and 18th century history of ideas.
Biographical, autobiographical and life writing. The British and French Enlightenments.
The French Revolution.
Revolutionary Memoir. Early Feminist Political Thought. And contemporary fiction in English.
She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000. Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus, 2006. Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009. She was a judge on the Manitoba Booker Prize panel in 2007, and the Samuel Johnson Prize panel in 2014. She is a member of the Folio Prize Academy.
