Rebecca Stott

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Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott (born September 24, 1964 in Cambridge ) is a British literary scholar and writer.

Life

Rebecca Stott grew up in a Christian fundamentalist family that belonged to the Raven brothers ; however, her parents left the community in the 1970s. Stott studied English and art history at the University of York , where he also received his doctorate.

She worked as a lecturer at the University of York, the University of Leeds and the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She received a professorship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich . She is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge .

Stott published 2007 Ghost Walk and 2009. The Coral Thief two thriller than history novels . She wrote a biography of Charles Darwin , Darwin and the Barnacle , and Darwin's Ghosts , another book on its forerunners.

Stott has three children and lives and works in London and Norwich.

Works (selection)

  • The Fabrication of the Late Victorian Femme Fatale . Macmillan, Basingstoke 1992
  • Tennyson . Longman, London 1996
  • with Simon Avery: Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Longman, London 2003
  • Oyster . Reaction, London 2003
  • Theaters of Glass: The Woman Who Brought the Sea to the City . London 2003
  • Darwin and the Barnacle . WW Norton, New York 2003
  • Ghost walk . Spiegel & Grau, New York 2007
  • The Coral Thief . Spiegel & Grau, New York 2009
    • The coral thief: novel . Translation by Renate Orth-Guttmann. Blessing, Munich 2011
  • Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists . Spiegel & Grau, New York 2012
  • In the Days of Rain: a Daughter, a Father, a Cult . Autobiography. Random House, New York 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Stott, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge