Marion Turner is associate professor of English at Jesus College, University of Oxford.
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, The Wolfson Foundation Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown, Historical Writers' Association A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The British Academy One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020 One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019 Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association of American Publishers One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019 One of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019