Meet Sarah Wise:
Sarah has a Master’s in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. She teaches in the English Department of City University, London; and lectures in 19th-century social history at the University of California’s London Study Center.
She is the author of The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London (2004), shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction.
Her second book, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of A Victorian Slum (2008) was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and was a Radio 4 Book of the Year and formed the basis of the BBC series 'The Slum'.
Her most recent book, Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors, was shortlisted for the 2014 Wellcome Trust Book Prize.
www.sarahwise.co.uk