Ruth Scurr

Ruth Scurr
Alma materOxford University; Cambridge University; Ecole Normale Supérieure
EmployerGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Notable work
  • Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (2006)
  • John Aubrey: My Own Life (2015)
SpouseSir Peter Stothard (m. 2021)
Websitewww.ruthscurr.co.uk

Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL, aka Lady Stothard, is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[1]

She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000.

  1. ^ "Dr Ruth Scurr". Gonville & Cauis. February 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2019.