# Victoria Hislop
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victoria hislop (née Hamson; born 18th June 1959) is an English author.
== Early life and education ==
Born in Bromley, Kent, Hislop was raised in Tonbridge and educated at Tonbridge Grammar School, a state funded grammar school. She studied English at the University of Oxford where she was an undergraduate student at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
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