Judith Flanders

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. She spent her childhood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972. A 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).

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.

Bibliography

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,