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词条 Victoria Whitworth
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  1. Biography

  2. Books

     Fiction  Memoir  Academic books 

  3. References

  4. External links

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Victoria (V.M.) Whitworth (née Thompson; born in London 1966[1]) is an Anglo-Scots writer, archaeologist and art historian. Her published writings, which focus on Britain in the later first millennium AD, include novels, academic works and a memoir.

Biography

Whitworth studied English (specialising in Medieval languages, literature and archaeology) at St Anne's College, Oxford, before doing an MA and a D.Phil in York. From 2012 to 2016 she was a lecturer at the Centre for Nordic Studies on the Orkney campus of the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her research has primarily focused on Pictish, Scottish and Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. Whitworth has published three historical novels set in Viking Age England.[2]

Books

Fiction

  • The Bone Thief (Ebury Press, 2012), {{ISBN|9780091947231}}
  • The Traitors’ Pit (Ebury Press, 2013), {{ISBN|9780091947187}}
  • Daughter of the Wolf (Head of Zeus, 2016), {{ISBN|978-1784082147}}

Memoir

  • Swimming with Seals (Head of Zeus, 2016), {{ISBN|978-1784978372}}

Academic books

  • Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell & Brewer, 2004), {{ISBN|1843830701}}
  • Bodystones and Guardian Beasts: The Gravestones of Middle Britain from the 8th to 11th Centuries (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

References

1. ^V. Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 4), Woodbridge, 2004, p. [https://books.google.be/books?id=vKLrtI_In5oC&pg=PR4 iv].
2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.vmwhitworth.co.uk/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017210507/http://vmwhitworth.co.uk/ |archive-date=17 October 2015 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}

External links

  • Author's web site
  • [https://newcastle.academia.edu/VictoriaWhitworth Victoria Whitworth] on Academia.edu
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