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From memoirs of unhappy childhoods to true crime, histories of the outcast poor to youth subcultures, or current affairs on distressing or violent topics, strategies to get your writing onto the page and into the bookshops will be shared by me and co-tutor Cathi Unsworth.
Sarah Wise. Sarah Wise (born ca. 1966) is an English journalist, academic guest lecturer, tutor, and author of books on 19th-century social history for the general reader. In 1984 Sarah Wise matriculated at the University of Southampton, where she graduated in 1988 with a B.A. in English literature. She was from January to June 1985 an exchange ...
Sarah Wise. Twitter. You can find me on Twitter here @MissSarahWise. Recent Writing. I've written on Soho's Denmark Street and its 19th-century radical political history for History Workshop Journal. https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbx009/3066160/The-Eclectic-Hall-Headquarters-of-Soho-Radicalism.
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.
Sarah Wise teaches 19 th -century social history and literature to undergraduates and adult learners and is visiting professor at the University of California’s London Study Center.
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.' ‘A fine social ...
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