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

Early life

Flanders was born to

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. She spent her childhood in

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, Canada, apart from a year in

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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).

Writing

As an author, Flanders concentrates on the

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. Her book, ''A Circle of Sisters'' followed the lives of four female siblings and ''The Invention of Murder'' investigated crime of the era. Recently she has served as a narrator, historian, and advisor for the

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''. Flanders also writes as an arts critic, on books, dance, art, and recently video games. Her work has appeared in ''

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''. A graduate of

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, New York, Flanders is a Senior Research Fellow in Nineteenth Century Social History at the

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Selected works

Non-fiction

* * *; in the USA as: * * * *Flanders, Judith (2014),''The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes,'' Atlantic Books *Flanders, Judith (2017), '' Christmas: A Biography'', St. Martin's Press, * *Flanders, Judith (2024), ''Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain,'' Picador,

Sam Clair novels

* Flanders, Judith (2014), ''Writers' Block,'' Allison and Busby, ; published in the USA as (2015) ''A Murder of Magpies'', St. Martin's Press, * Flanders, Judith (2015), ''A Bed of Scorpions,'' Allison and Busby * Flanders, Judith (2017), ''A Cast of Vultures'', St. Martin's Press, * Flanders, Judith (2018), ''A Howl of Wolves'', St. Martin's Press,

References

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