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Judith Flanders
A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House.
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The acclaimed author of The Victorian House and The Victorian City tells the story of the celebration of Christmas, from mummers’ plays to the invention of Sellotape, revealing much fascinating…
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Gaby Morgan
A joyful anthology of Christmas poems and songs with an introduction by Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography.
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First published in Great Britain as Writers’ block by Allison & Busby –Title page verso.
A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world’s knowledge.
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A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The…
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[Flanders] knows what we want to know and is thoroughly engaging, undidactic company. –Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe
The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.
The Macdonald sisters - Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa - started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of…
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A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world’s knowledge.
In this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective…
The Victorian City is a revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets, bringing to life the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor.
The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the bestselling author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens’s London.
Originally published: United Kingdom: Picador, 2020.
The MacDonald sisters started life in the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. Yet, as wives and mothers, they connected a famous painter…
Mary Dockray-Miller
A study of Judith of Flanders (c 1032-1094), which provides a narrative of Judith’s life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected. It argues that…
Through analysis of the books and art objects Judith of Flanders commissioned and collected, Dockray-Miller demonstrates that Judith consciously deployed patronage as a cultural strategy in her political and marital…
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A whip-smart, impeccably crafted mystery, this tremendously entertaining novel will have readers flying through the pages.
Summer in London: the sun is finally shining, the flowers are in bloom, and life is humming merrily along for book editor Samantha Clair, off to lunch with her old…
It’s just another day at the office for book editor Samantha Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers, wondering how to break it to her star novelist that her latest effort…
Following A Murder Of Magpies, her deliciously fun, cleverly written debut novel, acclaimed author Judith Flanders’s enormously enjoyable, too-smart-for-her-own-good new amateur sleuth returns for another whip-smart, impeccably crafted mystery.
Wilkie Collins
An elegant gift edition of one of the very first detective stories ever written.
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town…
In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective…
