Judith Flanders
Bio
Judith is the author of A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Louisa Baldwin, Agnes Poynter and Georgiana Burne-Jones, The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed, and Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian England. Her new book, The Invention of Murder, was recently published in paperback. She writes on the arts and books for the Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Telegraph and the TLS.
Articles By Judith Flanders
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Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place, Linbury Theatre review - to...
Most of us have been there: an impasse in a marriage, a bereavement in a dysfunctional family. Leonard Bernstein certainly had when he composed...
London Film Festival 2024 - the Vatican, the Blitz, a trip t...
Conclave
Director Edward Berger won an...
First Person: Lindsey Ferrentino on the play that has led Ad...
I turn 36 this year, while living in London and rehearsing my new play The Fear of 13 at the Donmar Warehouse. The cast places a cake on...
Timestalker review – she's lost control again
Unlike the controversial Netflix show Baby Reindeer, which challenges many of the same attitudes towards sexual harassment, self-delusion...
Kanga, Manchester Collective, Singh, RNCM Manchester review...
Of all the inventive and enterprising things Manchester Collective do, it’s most often been the playing of a string ensemble led from first desk...
theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' a...
Before Alice Lowe wrote her first short film scripts, she was, despite success in television and theater, “terrified” of making a full-length...
The Lehman Trilogy, Gillian Lynne Theatre review - three bro...
Merchant bankers then eh? It’s not a slang term of abuse for nothing, as the middlemen collecting the crumbs off the cake (in...
Filumena, Theatre Royal Windsor review - Mozartian marriage...
Of all the ingenues in all the world of golden TV sitcom, Felicity Kendal was the most innocent, the most wicked, the most deceptive, with an...
Album: Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood
Immanuel Wilkins’s third Blue Note Album – Blues Blood – has a big concept behind it. According...
Brace Brace, Royal Court review - too slender to satisfy
Air travel is bad for us. Yes, yes, I know we need planes to take us long distances, but look at the downside: not only the carbon footprint, but...