Fiona Stafford is professor of English language and literature, University of Oxford. She is author of The Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year, The Long, Long Life of Trees and presenter of two highly acclaimed series for BBC Radio 3 titled The Meaning of Trees. She lives in Bucks, UK.

"Of all the books published on Austen this year, the most satisfying—perhaps because it has a succinctness and a refreshing absence of great claims that Austen herself would have appreciated—is Fiona Stafford's Jane Austen: A Brief Life."—Lucy Lethbridge, Literary Review“[An] engaging biography”—Barbara Leonardi, The Year’s Work in English Studies

Fiona Stafford is professor of English language and literature, University of Oxford. She is author of The Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year, The Long, Long Life of Trees and presenter of two highly acclaimed series for BBC Radio 3 titled The Meaning of Trees. She lives in Bucks, UK.

"Of all the books published on Austen this year, the most satisfying—perhaps because it has a succinctness and a refreshing absence of great claims that Austen herself would have appreciated—is Fiona Stafford's Jane Austen: A Brief Life."—Lucy Lethbridge, Literary Review“[An] engaging biography”—Barbara Leonardi, The Year’s Work in English Studies