Victoria (V.M.) Whitworth FSA FSA Scot (née Thompson; born in London 1966[1]) is a British writer, archaeologist and art historian. Her published writings, which focus on Britain in the later first millennium AD, include novels, academic works and a memoir.

Victoria Whitworth

BornVictoria Thompson
1966
London
NationalityBritish
Alma materSt Anne's College, Oxford
University of York
Genrenon-fiction

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Whitworth studied English (specialising in Medieval languages, literature and archaeology) at St Anne's College, Oxford, before doing an MA and a D.Phil. in York. From 2012 to 2016 she was a lecturer at the Centre for Nordic Studies on the Orkney campus of the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her research has primarily focused on Pictish, Scottish and Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. Whitworth has published three historical novels set in Viking Age England.[2] On 27 September 2020 a letter in support of JK Rowling for her stance on transgender issues was published in the Sunday Times to which Whitworth was one of 58 signatories.[3]

Books

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Fiction

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  • The Bone Thief (Ebury Press, 2012), ISBN 9780091947231
  • The Traitors’ Pit (Ebury Press, 2013), ISBN 9780091947187
  • Daughter of the Wolf (Head of Zeus, 2016), ISBN 978-1784082147

Memoir

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Academic books

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References

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  1. ^ V. Thompson, Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 4), Woodbridge, 2004, p. iv.
  2. ^ "V.M.Whitworth". Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Ian McEwan among figures to sign open letter defending JK Rowling from 'hate speech'". The Independent. 28 September 2020. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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