Author: Victoria Thompson
Alternate names: Victoria E. Thompson
Born: 1966
Bio: Dr. Victoria Thompson 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.