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DAVIES, STEVIE

9 Oystermouth Court, Castle Road, Mumbles, Swansea, SW3 5TD
Email: StevieDavies@spirit.plus.com 
Website:  www.steviedavies.com

Novelist, historian, biographer, critic. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1998. Experienced speaker, prize–judge, editor and broadcaster. Comes from Swansea where she is at present the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow. She is the biographer of Henry Vaughan and an historian of the 17th century. Her first novel, Boy Blue, won the Fawcett Prize (1989); other novels have been longlisted for the Booker Prize (1994) and shortlisted for the Portico (1998) and Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year (1998 & 2000). Her novel, The Element of Water (Women’s Press, 2001), was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Selected Publications:
Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1976)
Renaissance Views of Man (The Greenwood Press Literature in Context Series) (Manchester University Press, 1978)
Emily Bronte: Artist as Free Woman (Carcanet, 1983)
Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton’s Politics and Christian Liberty (University of Missouri Press, 1983)
Idea of Woman in Renaissance Literature: Feminine Reclaimed (Harvester Press, 1986)
Blue Boy (Women’s Press, 1987)
Emily Bronte (Key Women Writers Series) (Prentice Hall, 1988)
Woolf’s ’To the Lighthouse’ (Penguin Critical Studies) (Penguin, 1989) 
Primavera (Women’s Press, 1990)
John Milton (Harvester New Readings) (Prentice Hall, 1991)
Arms and the Girl (Women’s Press, 1992)
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Penguin Critical Studies) (Penguin, 1993)
John Donne (Writers and their Work Series) (Northcote House, 1994)
Closing the Book (Women’s Press, 1994)
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (Penguin Critical Studies) (Penguin, 1995)
Henry Vaughan (Seren, 1995)
Four Dreamers and Emily (Women’s Press, 1996)
The Web of Belonging (Women’s Press, 1997)
Emily Bronte (Writers and Their Work Series) (Northcote House, 1997)
Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution 1640-60 (Women’s Press, 1998)
Impassioned Clay (Women’s Press, 1999)
Emily Bronte: Heretic (Women’s Press, 1999)
Impassioned Clay (Women’s Press, 2000)
The Element of Water (Women’s Press, 2001)
Century of Troubles (Channel 4 Books, 2001)
Kith and Kin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
The Eyrie (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007)
Into Suez (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009)




The Eyrie (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007)

Nobody at The Eyrie is quite like Red Dora - in her eighties, she’s a Scots ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite who fought in the Spanish Civil War. With her fiery brand of radical anticapitalism, she conjures plans of political sabotage and computer hacking. She rails at a society that seems to have forgotten its political roots and a government that doesn’t care. But beneath her rage lies a more intimate disappointment, a tragic death she has yet to come to terms with. Eirlys is a madly patriotic Welsh woman with a brass dragon on her door. She is the ’mother’ of the The Eyrie’s little clan - always providing tea and sympathy. Little do the other residents suspect that Eirlys was once in prison…Hannah comes to The Eyrie to escape years of boredom in a dreary middle-class marriage to a man she never loved. Reveling in her new found freedom, she finds that life at The Eyrie offers surprising new opportunities and an unlikely co-conspirator in Red Dora.

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Eligible Writers on Tour Subjects:
1 Read and discuss own work
2 Writing and reading the novel
3 Women’s writing
4 History and fiction; historical fiction

AGE RANGE: 16 and above