**Judith Flanders *is a social historian. Her works include the bestselling The Invention of Murder *, Inside the Victorian Home, and The Victorian City. She is senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, as well as a frequent contributor to the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Wa...

**Judith Flanders *is a social historian. Her works include the bestselling The Invention of Murder *, Inside the Victorian Home, and The Victorian City. She is senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, as well as a frequent contributor to the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal.