Judith Flanders

Christmas: A Biography

By Judith Flanders - Published 2017

Genres:

Nonfiction

This fascinating, if loosely-structured, study of the evolution of Christmas traditions will reward the patient reader. It brings together a wide variety of ...Read Review

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London

By Judith Flanders - Published 2014

Genres:

Nonfiction

Nineteenth-century London was a busy, dirty, fascinating place, and this nonfiction work captures much of those times in elaborate detail. Conveyed in smooth ...Read Review

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

By Judith Flanders - Published 2011Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

Cain might object to the theft of credit for his invention, but otherwise the title of this work sums things up rather nicely. ...Read Review

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

When we think of the Britain in the Victorian age, certain images spring to mind; grim industrialisation being the most potent. But it ...Read Review