Judith Flanders (born 1959) is a historian, journalist and author based in London, England. Her writings centre on the Victorian period.
Early life and education Flanders was born to Jewish parents in London, England.Own website: Retrieved 29 March 2016. She spent her childhood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972. Flanders is graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. 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).Own website: Retrieved 30 October 2011.
Career 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. Recently she has served as a narrator, historian, and advisor for the Ubisoft video game Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
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.
Flanders is a Senior Research Fellow in Nineteenth Century Social History at the University of Buckingham."Judith Flanders" faculty page, University of Buckingham
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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,
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