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Judith Flanders

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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

Lines of Thought, Parasol Unit

Thursday, 01 March 2012 Read more...

The Devil and Mr Punch, Improbable, The Pit

Wednesday, 08 February 2012 Read more...

The Bicentenary of the Birth of Charles Dickens, Westminster Abbey

Tuesday, 07 February 2012 Read more...

Without Warning, Old Vic Tunnels

Monday, 06 February 2012 Read more...

David Shrigley: Brain Activity, Hayward Gallery

Thursday, 02 February 2012 Read more...

Draft Works, Royal Ballet, Linbury Studio

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Read more...

2011: Mariinsky, Manon, and a German Dane

Sunday, 01 January 2012 Read more...

Cabaret Falafel, Gaby's Deli, second verse!

Saturday, 10 December 2011 Read more...

Cabaret Falafel, Gaby's Deli

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 Read more...

The Nutcracker, Royal Ballet

Sunday, 04 December 2011 Read more...

UnDance, Mark-Anthony Turnage/Wayne McGregor/Mark Wallinger, Sadler’s Wells

Friday, 02 December 2011 Read more...

A Hankering after Ghosts, Dickens and the Supernatural, British Library

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 Read more...

Judith Paris, Waxing Lyrical, New Diorama

Thursday, 24 November 2011 Read more...

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Jérôme Bel, 3Abschied, Sadler’s Wells

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 Read more...

Royal Ballet, Asphodel Meadows/Enigma Variations/Gloria

Sunday, 20 November 2011 Read more...

Rambert: RainForest/ Seven For A Secret/ Elysian Fields, Sadler’s Wells

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 Read more...

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