Jane Dunn is a British author. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Early and personal life
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) and Charles Wilhelm Thesen. She grew up in Wiltshire, the eldest of eight children.
Dunn received a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from University College London.
Her first job was in the editorial department of Vogue magazine.
She was married to the publisher Philip Dunn (1946-2007), with two children, Benjamin and Lily. She is now married to the linguist and author Nicholas Ostler and has lived in Hungerford since 2015.
Books
Non-fiction
Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley (1978) ISBN 978-0-29777-383-2
Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy (1990) ISBN 978-0-22402-234-7
Antonia White: A Life (1998) ISBN 978-0-22403-619-1
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens (2003) ISBN 978-0-00257-150-0
Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne & Sir William Temple. A Love Story in the Age of Revolution (2008) ISBN 978-0-00718-220-6
Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing (2013) ISBN 978-0-00734-708-7
Fiction
The Marriage Season (2023) ISBN 978-1-80483-526-5
An Unsuitable Heiress (2023) ISBN 978-1-80483-537-1
A Scandalous Match (2024) ISBN 978-1-80483-547-0