Autor/-in: Wise Sarah

Sarah Wise has an MA in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck College. She teaches 19th-century social history and literature to both undergraduates and adult learners, and is visiting professor at the University of California’s London Study Center, and a guest lecturer at City University. Her interests are London/urban history, working-class history, medical history, psychogeography, 19th-century literature and reportage. Her website is. www. sarahwise. co. uk. Her most recent book, Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England. (Bodley Head), was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2014. Her 2004 debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London. (Jonathan Cape), was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Her follow-up The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum. was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. Sarah was a major contributor to Iain Sinclair's compendium London, City of Disappearances. (2006). She has contributed to the TLS. , History Today. , BBC History. magazine, the Literary Review. , the FT. and the Daily Telegraph. She discussed bodysnatching for BBC2’s History Cold Case. series; provided background material for BBC1’s Secret History of Our Streets. ; and spoke about Broadmoor Hospital on Channel 5’s programme on that institution. She has been a guest on Radio 4’s All in the Mind. , Radio 3’s Night Waves. and the Guardian. ’s Books Podcast about 19th-century mental health.