Judith Flanders
Judith Flanders (born 1959) is a historian, journalist and author, who has settled in London, England. Her writings centre on the Victorian period. Early life. Flanders was born to Jewish parents in London, England. She spent her childhood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972. She moved to Britain after university, and worked as an editor for various London publishers. Her experiences have been satirized in a crime novel, "Writers' Block" (2014), retitled "A Murder of Magpies" (2015). Writing. 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". A graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, Flanders is a Senior Research Fellow in Nineteenth Century Social History at the University of Buckingham.