Lee Jackson (author)

For people with a similar name, see Lee Jackson (disambiguation).

Lee Jackson
Born	(1971-05-13) 13 May 1971 (age 54)
Occupations	Historian, novelist
Website	http://www.victorianlondon.org

Lee Jackson (born 1971) is a British novelist and historian.

Education and career

Jackson has a doctorate from Royal Holloway University of London and is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Dickens Museum. ^{[1] [2]} He is the creator of The Dictionary of Victorian London, a widely used free educational resource, established in 2001, that brings together digitised primary sources relating to the social history of Victorian London. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Writing

Jackson has written novels, anthologies and non-fiction books, all of which focus upon the Victorian capital. ^[6] In 2015, he was interviewed on NPR about his book Dirty Old London (Yale University Press, 2014), ^[7] a history of dirt, filth and pollution, described by The Guardian as "rich in wonderful contemporary details gleaned from newspapers and archives ... a vivid account of the enormous challenges faced by a city expanding at an unprecedented rate". ^[8] Jackson was also interviewed in print for Der Spiegel ^[9] He has written articles for History Today. ^[10] In 2021, he lectured and recorded video content for the Thames Festival Trust about North Woolwich Pleasure Gardens, as featured in his book Palaces of Pleasure (Yale University Press, 2019). ^[11]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Jackson, Lee (2003). London Dust. London: Arrow Books. ISBN   9780099439998.
• Jackson, Lee (2004). A Metropolitan Murder. London: Arrow Books. ISBN   9780434012299.
• Jackson, Lee (2005). The Welfare of the Dead. London: Arrow Books. ISBN   9780099469230.
• Jackson, Lee (2006). The Last Pleasure Garden. London: Arrow Books. ISBN   9780099469247.
• Jackson, Lee (2007). A Most Dangerous Woman. London: Arrow Books. ISBN   9780434015528.
• Jackson, Lee (2008). The Mesmerist's Apprentice. London: Arrow Books. ISBN   9780099498421.
• Jackson, Lee (2011). The Diary of a Murder. London: Snowbooks. ISBN   9781906727932.

Non-fiction

• Jackson, Lee (2006). A Dictionary of Victorian London: An A-Z of the Great Metropolis. London: Anthem Press. ISBN   9781843312307.
• Jackson, Lee (2012). Walking Dickens' London. London: Shire. ISBN   9780747811343.
• Jackson, Lee (2014). Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth. London: Yale University Press. ISBN   9780300216110.
• Jackson, Lee (2019). Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment. London: Yale University Press. ISBN   9780300254785.
• Jackson, Lee (2023). Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London. London: Yale University Press. ISBN   9780300266207.

References

1. Jackson, Lee (8 November 2021). DIckens's London: The origins of a literary territory (Thesis). Royal Holloway University of London.
2. "Who's Who". Charles Dickens Museum. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
3. "The Dictionary of Victorian London | open.conted.ox.ac.uk (beta)". open.conted.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
4. "ENGL 373 Victorian Crime: Online Primary Source Collections". libguides.hope.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
5. Philpotts, Trey (2016). "Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson (review)" . Dickens Quarterly. 33 (2): 153–156. doi:10.1353/dqt.2016.0023. ISSN   2169-5377.
6. "Lee Jackson". www.fantasticfiction.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
7. "'Dirty Old London': A History Of The Victorians' Infamous Filth". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
8. "Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson – review". The Guardian. 1 January 2015. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
9. "(S+) »Mit der Toilette kam das Chaos«". Der Spiegel (in German). 29 May 2015. ISSN   2195-1349. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
10. "Lee Jackson | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
11. Trust, Thames Festival Trust | The Islanders: North Woolwich Pleasure Gardens Talk + Q&A @ Totally Thames 2021 | Thames Festival. "Thames Festival Trust - The Islanders: North Woolwich Pleasure Gardens Talk + Q&A @ Totally Thames 2021". Thames Festival Trust. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2022.

External links

• The Dictionary of Victorian London