Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL, aka Lady Stothard, is a British writer, historian and literary critic.

It won the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography (2022).

[11] Since then she has also written for The Daily Telegraph,[12] The Observer, New Statesman,[13] The London Review of Books,[14] The New York Review of Books, The Nation,[15] The New York Observer, The Guardian[16] and The Wall Street Journal.

[21] Scurr is Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she has been a Fellow since 2006.

Her research interests include: 17th- and 18th-century history of ideas; biographical, autobiographical and life writing; the British and French Enlightenments; the French Revolution; Revolutionary Memoir; early Feminist Political Thought; and contemporary fiction in English.