Nell Stevens (born 1985) is a British writer of memoirs and fiction. She is an assistant professor in the

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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".

Writing

Stevens has published two memoirs. ''Bleaker House'' (2017) is about a period living on

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in the South Atlantic.) ''Mrs Gaskell and Me'' (2018) draws on her own life and that of the English novelist

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(1810-1865). Her first novel ''Briefly, a Delicious Life'' was published in 2022. She was shortlisted for the 2018

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, and has written for publications including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. She won a 2019

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for ''Mrs Gaskell and Me''. Stevens appeared on

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's '' Open Book'' in January 2023, where she and Tom Crewe "discuss ddrawing creatively on marginal - and radical - LGBTQ voices from the 19th century".

Personal life

Stevens lives in London with her wife and son.

Selected publications

* * (Published in United States as ''The Victorian and the romantic: a memoir, a love story, and a friendship across time'') *

References

External links

* 1985 births Living people Academics of the University of Warwick 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British non-fiction writers 21st-century British women writers British LGBT writers {{UK-novelist-stub