Nell Stevens
Nell Stevens (born 1985)[1] is a British writer of memoirs and fiction. She is an assistant professor in the University of Warwick School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, where she teaches on the Warwick Writing Programme and lists her research interests as "historical fiction, autofiction, life writing, hybrid forms".[2]
Writing[edit]
Stevens has published two memoirs. Bleaker House (2017) is about a period living on Bleaker Island in the South Atlantic.[3][4] Mrs Gaskell and Me (2018) draws on her own life and that of the English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865).[5] Her first novel Briefly, a Delicious Life was published in 2022.[6] She was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award,[7] and has written for publications including The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian and Granta.[8]
She won a 2019 Somerset Maugham Award for Mrs Gaskell and Me.[9]
Stevens appeared on BBC Radio 4's Open Book in January 2023, where she and Tom Crewe "discuss[ed] drawing creatively on marginal - and radical - LGBTQ voices from the 19th century".[10]
Personal life[edit]
Stevens lives in London with her wife and son.[8]
Selected publications[edit]
- Stevens, Nell (2017). Bleaker house: chasing my novel to the end of the world. London: Picador. ISBN 9781509824410.
- Stevens, Nell (2018). Mrs Gaskell and me : two women, two love stories, two centuries apart. London: Picador. ISBN 9781509868216. (Published in United States as The Victorian and the romantic: a memoir, a love story, and a friendship across time)
- Stevens, Nell (2022). Briefly, a delicious life. London. ISBN 978-1529083422.
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References[edit]
- ^ "Catalogue record for Bleaker House". JISC Library Hub. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ "Dr Nell Stevens". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
"Warwick Writing Programme: People". warwick.ac.uk. University of Warwick. Retrieved 9 January 2023. - ^ O'Keefe, Alice (27 May 2017). "Bleaker House by Nell Stevens review – how not to write a novel". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ McAlpin, Heller (21 March 2017). "Review of Bleaker House by Nell Stevens". Book Reviews, NPR.
- ^ Stevens, Nell (24 October 2018). "Communing with Mrs. Gaskell". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ Klaces, Caleb (18 June 2022). "Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens review – on holiday with Chopin and George Sand". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ "2018 Award Ceremony, Front Row | BBC Short Story Awards". www.english.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Bio". Nell Stevens. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ "Open Book". BBC. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
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