Stella Tillyard

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(born 1957) is an English author and historian, educated at

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. In 1999 her bestselling book ''Aristocrats'' was made into a six-part series for BBC1/Masterpiece Theatre sold to over 20 countries. Winner of the Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Longman/History Today Prize and the Fawcett Prize, she has taught at Harvard; the

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, Los Angeles; Birkbeck, London and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, London. She is a visiting professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the

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Books

*2019
George IV: King in Waiting
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*2018

', Vintage, London, published in 2019 as
Call Upon the Water
', Simon & Schuster, New York *201

Vintage, London. Danish translation available *2006
A Royal Affair. George III and his Troublesome Siblings
', Vintage Books, London. Published in New York as ''A Royal Affair. George III and his Scandalous Siblings,'' Random House. Swedish translation available *1999 ''Aristocrats.The Illustrated Companion,'' Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London *1997 ''Citizen Lord. Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798'', Chatto & Windus, London. Russian, Hungarian and Brazilian translations in preparation *1994 ''Aristocrats. Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832,'' Vintage, London. Reprinted by the Folio Society, 2008, with a new introduction. Translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish *1987 ''The Impact of Modernism'', Routledge, London

Professional activities

*2019 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature *2016 Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London *2016 Judge, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year *2013 Judge, Hesell-Tiltman History Prize for English PEN *2010 Judge,

Samuel Johnson Prize The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award. With its m ...

*2010-14 Judge, Prison Reform Trust writing competition *2009 Writer in Residence, Farmleigh, Dublin *2006-11 Senior Research Fellow, AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London *2002 Judge,

Whitbread Prize The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...

*1999-2000/2005-6, Columnist,

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Prizes and awards

*2012 Orange Prize long list, Tides of War *1999 Meilleur Livre Etranger, Aristocrats *1997

biography short list, Citizen Lord *1995 Fawcett Prize, Aristocrats *1994 Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, Aristocrats *1988 Nicholas Pevsner Prize *1981-2

Knox Fellowship The Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship program is a scholarship program which funds students from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to undertake graduate study at Harvard University. The program is named after the businessman, sold ...

, Harvard University *1979-81 Domus Student,

Linacre College, Oxford Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the UK whose members comprise approximately 50 fellows and 550 postgraduate students. Linacre is a diverse college in terms of both the international composition of its me ...

Film and television

*2012 A Royal Affair, Denmark 2012 *2009 Deutsches Radio TV documentary, A Royal Affair *2008 "Library Late", National Library, Dublin *2000 "The Making of Aristocrats". One-hour documentary interview. BBC Education *1999

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BBC/WGBH 6 part Co-Production with Screen Ireland, for BBC1 and Masterpiece Theatre

Radio

*2019 BBC Radio4, A Point of View: *#"The Sea is Back" *#"Peak Stuff" *2018 BBC Radio 4, A Point of View: *#"Speak, History!" *#"Cities of the Dead" *#"A Problem with Words" *#"The Museum of Deportation" *2017 BBC Radio 4, A Point of View: "The Screensaver of Life, or the Idling Brain" *2014 BBC Radio 4 on the Georgians *2012 Woman's Hour, Radio 4, "Female Academicians" *2012 Today, Radio 4, "The History of Fame and Celebrity" *2011 BBC Radio 3, "Private Passions"

Recent articles and introductions

*2014 Introduction, Jan Morris, ''The Venetian Empire'' *2014 "The Creaking of the Scenery", Writing Historical Fiction: ''The Writers & Artists Companion'' *2012 Introduction, Nancy Mitford, ''The Sun King'' *2008 "Biography and Modernity: some thoughts on origins", Writing Lives, Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England *2006 Introduction, James Boswell, London Journal *2006 "All our Pasts", ''TLS'', October 2006. Reprinted in ''The Author'', Spring 2007. *2006 "David Malouf", ''Prospect'' *2005 "Alan Hollinghurst", ''Prospect''

Catalogue essays

*2015 "Newfoundland", the work of Romilly Saumarez Smith, Edmund de Waal Studio; Sainsbury Centre, Norwich *2005 "Paths of Glory: Fame and the Public in Eighteenth Century London", Joshua Reynolds and the Creation of Celebrity, Tate Britain, London

Recent talks

*2019 "The Hanoverians: when Germans spoke French in St James's", Europe House, London *2017 "History and the Historical Novel", Warwick University *2017 "Female Celebrity, Feminism and Celebrity Culture", Oxford University *2016 "Opera and the Historical Novel", Royal Holloway, London *2015 "Tony Small; an African American in Ireland", Dublin Festival of History *2015 "Collecting the World; How Global Art came to Ireland in the Eighteenth Century", Art Institute of Chicago *2015 "Hollywood and the Eighteenth Century", ASECS Conference, Los Angeles *2015 "Two Irish Interiors", Northwestern University *2015 "Celebrity and the Plain Portrait in the Eighteenth Century", Kings College, London, February *2014 "History and the Historical Novel", Warwick University, 14 January

Personal

Tillyard moved to the United States in 1981 and has lived for long periods in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Florence. In 2006 she moved to London. She campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU. She divides her time between London and Italy. She has two children.

References

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