Lee Jackson (author)

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Lee Jackson
Born (1971-05-13) 13 May 1971 (age 54)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)historian, novelist
Website http://www.victorianlondon.org

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

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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 UP, 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 UP, 2019). [11]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

References

  1. Jackson, Lee (8 November 2021). "DIckens's London: The origins of a literary territory".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)