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.^{[citation needed]} She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing that tripos in the upper second class in 1980.^[1]

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.^[2] Since 2017, she has been Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford.^[3]

Selected works

• Stevenson, Jane; Davidson, Peter, eds. (1997). The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt., Opened. London: Prospect Books. ISBN 978-0907325765.
• Stevenson, Jane; Davidson, Peter, eds. (2001). Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198184263.
• Stevenson, Jane (2005). Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198185024.
• Stevenson, Jane (2007). Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224078757.
• Stevenson, Jane (2018). Baroque between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198808770.
• Stevenson, Jane (2021). The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico Da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. London: Head of Zeus. ISBN 9781800241978.

Fiction

• Stevenson, Jane (1999). Several Deceptions. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224059398.
• Stevenson, Jane (2000). London Bridges. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224059404.
• Stevenson, Jane (2002). The Winter Queen. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0618149124. (original title Astraea London: Jonathan Cape, 2001)
• Stevenson, Jane (2003). The Shadow King. Boston, MA: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0618149131. (original title The Pretender London: Jonathan Cape, 2002)
• Stevenson, Jane (2003). The Empress Of The Last Days. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224061421.
• Stevenson, Jane (2005). Good Women. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224073516.