Jane Dunn

Historian and biographer Jane (FRSL) is the author of seven acclaimed biographies, including Mary Shelley: Moon in Eclipse (W&N, 1978), the sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf: A Very Close Conspiracy (Little, Brown, 1991), Antonia White: Bound to the Fiery Wheel (Jonathan Cape, 1998) and Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters (HarperPress, 2013), as well as the Sunday Times and NYT bestseller, Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens (Knopf, 2014).

She is also the author of a series set in the Regency, beginning with The Marriage Season (Boldwood, 2023).

She lives in Berkshire with her husband, the linguist Nicholas Ostler.