Jane Dunn Explained

Jane Dunn is a British author. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.^[1]

She was born Jane Thesen, daughter of David and Ellinor Thesen, in Durban, South Africa. She is great-great-grand-daughter of both John Bennie (first Xhosa linguist, and co-founder of Lovedale Mission School) john bennie (missionary) and Charles Wilhelm Thesen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilhelm_Thesen]

She grew up in Wiltshire, the eldest of eight children.

She received a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from University College London.^[2] Her first job was in the editorial department of Vogue Magazine.

She was married to the publisher Philip Dunn, with two children, Benjamin and Lily. She is now married to the linguist and author Nicholas Ostler and has lived in Hungerford, England since 2015.^[3]

Books

Non-fiction

• Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley (1978)
• Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy (1990)^{[4] [5]}
• Antonia White

A Life (1998)

• Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens (2003)^[6]
• Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne & Sir William Temple. A Love Story in the Age of Revolution (2008)
• Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing (2013)^{[7] [8]}

Fiction

• The Marriage Season (2023)
• An Unsuitable Heiress (2023)
• A Scandalous Match (2024)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dunn, Jane . December 15, 2023 . Royal Society of Literature. September 2023 .
2. Web site: Author Interview – Jane Dunn . March 4, 2024 . I Heart Books. 8 September 2023 .
3. Web site: February 14, 2020 . FEL Executive Committee member Nicholas Ostler . December 15, 2023 . FEL Blog . . August 10, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220810174851/https://www.ogmios.org/blog/fel-executive-committee-member-nicholas-ostler/ . live .
4. Web site: April 29, 1991 . A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn . December 15, 2023 . Publishers Weekly.
5. Web site: March 15, 1991 . A Very Close Conspiracy . December 15, 2023 . . January 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230131040407/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jane-dunn/a-very-close-conspiracy/ . live .
6. Web site: December 8, 2003 . ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn . December 15, 2023 . Publishers Weekly.
7. Web site: June 23, 2014 . Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters by Jane Dunn . December 15, 2023 . Publishers Weekly.
8. Web site: Callow . Simon . April 20, 2013 . Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review . December 15, 2023 . . February 3, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200203190609/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/20/daphne-du-maurier-sisters-review . live .