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Judith Flanders (born 1959) is a historian, journalist and author, who has settled in London, England. Her writings centre on the Victorian period.

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Early life

Flanders was born to Jewish parents in London, England. [1] She spent her childhood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972. She moved to Britain after university, and worked as an editor for various London publishers.

She included a satirical account of her experiences in a crime novel, Writers' Block (2014), retitled A Murder of Magpies (2015). [2]

Writing

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. [3] [4] Recently she has served as a narrator, historian, and advisor for the Ubisoft video game Assassin's Creed Syndicate . [5]

Flanders also writes as an arts critic, on books, dance, art, and recently video games. Her work has appeared in The Sunday Telegraph , The Guardian , The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement . [6]

A graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Flanders is a Senior Research Fellow in Nineteenth Century Social History at the University of Buckingham. [7]

Selected works

Non-fiction

Sam Clair novels

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References

  1. Own website: Retrieved 29 March 2016. Archived 19 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Own website: Retrieved 30 October 2011. Archived 19 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Douglas, Robert (11 January 2011). "The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders: review". Telegraph. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  4. Foreman, Amanda (8 May 2005). "'A Circle of Sisters': Eminent Victorians". The New York Times . Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  5. "Assassin's Creed Syndicate Historical Characters Trailer [US]". Ubisoft. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  6. Judith Flanders (24 March 2010). "Judith Flanders from HarperCollins Publishers". Harpercollins.ca. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  7. "Judith Flanders" faculty page, University of Buckingham
  8. Book Peeks into Domestic Lives of Victorians, The Tuscaloosa News, 1 August 2004, retrieved 27 May 2011
  9. Marsh, Jan (22 September 2006). "How Brits Got Hooked On Sport, Shows and Shops". The Independent .
  10. "The Invention Of Murder by Judith Flanders reviewed by Jonathan Barnes - TLS". Entertainment.timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  11. "The Victorian City by Judith Flanders reviewed by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - Sunday Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  12. Moran, Joe (30 January 2020). "A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders – the curious history of alphabetical order". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 March 2020.