Judith Flanders

Judith Flanders (born 1959, London) is a historian and author. She spent her childhood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972, and then worked as an editor for various London publishers, which she has satirized in a crime novel, Writers' Block (2014).^[1]

As an author, Flanders concentrates on the Victorian period. Her book, A Circle of Sisters followed the lives of four female siblings and The Invention of Murder investigated crime of the era.^[2][3]

Flanders also writes as an arts critic, on books, dance and art. Her work has appeared in The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement.^[4]

Selected works

• Funnell, Peter; Flanders, Judith; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (1996), Victorian portraits in the National Portrait Gallery collection, National Portrait Gallery, ISBN 978-1-85514-208-4 
• Flanders, Judith (2001), A circle of sisters : Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin, Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-88673-9 
• Flanders, Judith (2003), The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-713188-7 ; in the USA as: Flanders, Judith (2004), Inside the Victorian home : a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England, W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-05209-1 ^[5]
• Flanders, Judith (2006), Consuming passions : leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain, HarperPress, ISBN 0-00-717295-8 ^[6]
• Flanders, Judith (2011), The Invention of Murder : How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, HarperPress, ISBN 0-00-724888-1 ^[7]
• Flanders, Judith (2012), The Victorian City : Everyday Life in Dickens' London, Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-84887-795-1 ^[8]
• Writers' Block (Allison and Busby, 2014), to be published as A Murder of Magpies in the USA (St. Martin's Press, 2015)
• The Making of Home (Atlantic, 2014)

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