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Wise’s book bristles with injustices.’ 5 stars, Sunday Telegraph ‘An important, shocking book.’ The Independent ‘A shocking study.’ The Times ‘A gruelling but important book. Wise has uncovered a forgotten and terrible scandal of the not-so-distant past.’ Literary Review ‘Compelling. . . The Undesirables advances our knowledge ...
Sarah Wise. ‘A haunting blend of scholarship and period empathy:’ Iain Sinclair, Daily Telegraph. ‘The least smug and self-congratulatory book ever written on 19th-century slum life:’ Matthew Sweet, Sunday Times. Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
Apr 4, 2024 · 'Is there any miscarriage of justice more grievous than a badly framed law? The historian Sarah Wise makes a powerful case for the prosecution in The Undesirables, a staggering study of 1913's largely forgotten Mental Deficiency Act... Wise's book bristles with injustices.' ― Sunday Telegraph, *****
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Apr 4, 2024 · Piecing together the lives irrevocably changed by this devastating legislation, The Undesirables provides a compelling study of how early twentieth-century attitudes to class, gender and disability resulted in a nationwide scandal – and how they continue to shape social policy to this day.
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Sarah Wise is a social historian and visiting professor at the University of California's London Study Centre. Her previous books include Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England and The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum.
Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes – their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence – and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the ‘inconvenient person.'
In The Italian Boy, Sarah Wise not only investigates the case of the London Burkers but also, by making use of an incredibly rich archival store, the lives of ordinary lower-class Londoners. Here is a window on the lives of the poor - a window that is opaque in places, shattered in others but which provides an unprecedented view of low-life ...
