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Judith is the author of A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Louisa Baldwin, Agnes Poynter and Georgiana Burne-Jones, The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed, and Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian England. Her new book, The Invention of Murder, was recently published in paperback. She writes on the arts and books for the Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Telegraph and the TLS.

Articles By Judith Flanders

Serenade/Carmina Burana, Birmingham Royal Ballet, London Coliseum

Friday, 20 March 2015 Read more...

Le Corsaire, English National Ballet

Friday, 10 January 2014 Read more...

Jewels, Royal Ballet

Wednesday, 18 December 2013 Read more...

Hofesh Shechter, Sun, Sadler’s Wells

Thursday, 31 October 2013 Read more...

The Sleeping Beauty, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler’s Wells

Friday, 18 October 2013 Read more...

Bintley Triple Bill, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler’s Wells

Wednesday, 16 October 2013 Read more...

Don Quixote, Royal Ballet

Tuesday, 01 October 2013 Read more...

Jewels, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House

Tuesday, 13 August 2013 Read more...

Mayerling, Royal Ballet

Sunday, 16 June 2013 Read more...

Laurencia, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum

Wednesday, 03 April 2013 Read more...

Don Quixote, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum

Sunday, 31 March 2013 Read more...

Giselle, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum

Wednesday, 27 March 2013 Read more...

The Metamorphosis, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House

Tuesday, 19 March 2013 Read more...

Vollmond, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Sadler’s Wells

Sunday, 24 February 2013 Read more...

La Valse/ Monotones/ Marguerite & Armand, Royal Ballet

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 Read more...

Onegin, Royal Ballet

Sunday, 20 January 2013 Read more...

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