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Jennifer Robson

Author of The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding

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Jennifer Robson is an internationally acclaimed bestselling author of historical fiction. She studied French literature and modern history as an undergraduate at King's College at the University of Western Ontario. She then attended Saint Anthony's College at the University of Oxford, where she obtained her Doctorate in British economic and social history. Robson worked as an editor for a number of years, but is now lucky enough to consider herself a full-time writer. She is the author of the historical novels After the War Is Over and Somewhere in France. (Bowker Author Biography)
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1970-01-05
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Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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King's College, University of Western Ontario
St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford
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copy editor
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Robson, Stuart (father)
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Jennifer Robson first learned about the Great War from her father, acclaimed historian Stuart Robson, and later served as an official guide at the Canadian National War Memorial at Vimy Ridge, France. A former copy editor, she holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from the University of Oxford. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with her husband and young children.
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