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Jane Stevenson (born 1959) is a British author who was born in London and brought up in London, Beijing and Bonn. She has lectured in history at Sheffield University, and teaches literature and history at the University of Aberdeen, where she is the Regius Professor of Humanity. Her fiction books include Several Deceptions and Good Women, collections of novellas; a novel, London Bridges; and the historical trilogy made up of the novels The Winter Queen, The Shadow King, and The Empress of the Last Days. Stevenson lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Her academic publications include Women Latin Poets (Oxford University Press), Early Modern Women Poets with Peter Davidson (Oxford University Press) and The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened by Sir Kenelm Digby, co-edited with Peter Davidson (Prospect Books, ISBN 978-1-903018-70-5).