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Ophelia Field was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. She has worked as a policy analyst and consultant for a wide range of refugee and human rights organisations, including Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, English PEN and the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. Simultaneously, Ophelia researched and wrote The Favourite, originally published in 2002, and The Kit-Cat Club, which in 2008 was selected by the Financial Times as one of their History Books of the Year. She lives in London, with her partner and children.
Behind every great man, they say, is a strong woman. Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, the not always cozy confidante of Queen Anne, looms large over the 18th century, and Ophelia Field has done a remarkable - and surely definitive - job in bringing her story to life -- Hugo Vickers, author of <i>CECIL BEATON: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY</i> and <i>ALICE, PRINCESS ANDREW OF GREECE</i> A lively and provocative biography of a fascinating woman, which is crafted with style and vivacity. I am sure it will appeal to both scholars and the general reading public alike -- Alison Weir, author of THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII A masterly biography which brilliantly captures the power and passion of its subject. This is an exemplary study of an extraordinary woman -- Anne Somerset, author of QUEEN ANNE: THE POLITICS OF PASSION Scholarly but never less than fascinating, Field's debut truly brings to life the complex character of Sarah Churchill and the last of the Stuart courts * ABERDEEN EVENING EXPRESS * Once you have started reading Ophelia Field's splendid book, it is hard to put it down * THE LADY * A quite astonishing tale -- Mark Kishlansky * LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS * Field has created an unforgettable picture of a remarkable figure ... Instead of fictionalizing her, Field shows how Sarah became a kind of fictional and artistic icon, a symbol of certain kinds of power that remained free of the checks and balances that the new settlement and constitution was bent on establishing. Even after 250 years, she fascinates like nobody else of her time * SUNDAY HERALD * Field draws effectively on Sarah's letters and self-justifying memoirs to produce a remarkable portrait * SUNDAY TIMES * Other historians have skirted around the true nature of Sarah and Anne's passionate friendship, with its lesbian overtones, but Ophelia Field tackles the subject courageously ... During her long life Sarah managed to quarrel with almost everyone and took great care in editing her papers to ensure that posterity would know her side of the story, which is covered exhaustively by Field in this impressive debut * THE TIMES * She is a marvellous subject for a biography and Ophelia Field's book, capacious and beautifully detailed, does her full justice. It is the first work by a writer who is a master of her craft * INDEPENDENT * Nowhere is the subtlety of Ophelia Field's historical understanding more apparent than in her delicate reading of the relationship between Sarah and Anne. That it is Field's first book is something of a wonder ... An outstandingly accomplished debut -- Kathryn Hughes * GUARDIAN * Scholarly, highly articulate, and above all never dull -- John Adamson * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
