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name: Sarah  Wise
about: You can hear me speak about each of my books by going to the following site, and clicking the links sarahwise.co.uk/tvradio.htmlYou can follow me on twitter @MissSarahWiseExtra stories, pictures and further exploration of the subjects of each of my three books are available to read at www.sarahwise.co.ukMy Psychology Today blog on 19th-century mental health is here http://www.psychologytoday.com/expert...As for me: I live in central London and as well as writing my non-fiction books, I am currently working on a screenplay of Inconvenient People.I did a Master's degree in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London – jumping ship from EngLit to History. A chance discovery while writing my dissertation led to the writing of Th You can hear me speak about each of my books by going to the following site, and clicking the links sarahwise.co.uk/tvradio.htmlYou can follow me on twitter @MissSarahWiseExtra stories, pictures and further exploration of the subjects of each of my three books are available to read at www.sarahwise.co.ukMy Psychology Today blog on 19th-century mental health is here http://www.psychologytoday.com/expert...As for me: I live in central London and as well as writing my non-fiction books, I am currently working on a screenplay of Inconvenient People.I did a Master's degree in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London – jumping ship from EngLit to History. A chance discovery while writing my dissertation led to the writing of The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London, which was published in 2004. I followed this up with The Blackest Streets: the Life and Death of a Victorian Slum in 2008.My third book, Inconvenient People, came out in 2012.I also teach 19th-century social history and fiction, and I lecture regularly on London history and the history of 19th-century mental health.Prizes/shortlistings:The Italian Boy won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The Blackest Streets was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize for evocation of a location/landscape.Inconvenient People was shortlisted for the 2014 Wellcome Book Prize and was a book of the year in the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian and Spectator. ...more