Ruth Scurr

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Ruth Scurr FRSL
Alma mater	Oxford University; Cambridge University; Ecole Normale Supérieure
Employer	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Notable work	Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (2006) John Aubrey: My Own Life (2015)
Spouse	Sir Peter Stothard (m. 2021)
Website	www.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.