Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
by Wise, Sarah
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 1619021714
- ISBN 13
- 9781619021716
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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SARAH WISE has a BA in English Literature and a Masters degree in Victorian Studies, from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her book The Blackest Streets was published by Bodley Head in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize in 2009; it was a Book of the Year in the Sunday Telegraph and The Economist and for BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review programme. Her debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London , was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Sarah was a major contributor to Iain Sinclair's compendium London, City of Disappearances . She has spoken on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed , Woman's Hour and the Today programme, and on BBC Radio London and LBC Radio, and she regularly lectures to societies and at history events. She lives in central London.
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- Title
- Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
- Author
- Wise, Sarah
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 1619021714
- ISBN 13
- 9781619021716
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, California
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- SOCIAL HISTORY ADVANCE REVIEW COPY ARC
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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