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  1. ABOUT THE UNDESIRABLES. My last book, Inconvenient People, concerned the scandal of Victorians being placed into ‘lunatic’ asylums on very little evidence. It ended with a mention of how, in fact, wrongful detention became a far bigger and more intractable problem in the 20th century.

  2. www.sarahwise.co.ukSarah Wise

    Sarah Wise. Twitter. You can find me on Twitter here @MissSarahWise. Recent Writing. I've written on Soho's Denmark Street and its 19th-century radical political history for History Workshop Journal. https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbx009/3066160/The-Eclectic-Hall-Headquarters-of-Soho-Radicalism.

  3. Sarah Wise is the award-winning author of The Italian Boy, The Blackest Streets and other books about 19th-century London. She also writes articles, gives talks and teaches courses on Victorian history and literature.

  4. Oct 4, 2012 · Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England. Sarah Wise. Random House, Oct 4, 2012 - History - 496 pages. This highly original book brilliantly exposes the...

  5. Sarah Wise teaches 19 th -century social history and literature to undergraduates and adult learners and is visiting professor at the University of California’s London Study Center.

  6. Feb 4, 2020 · For this insightful and evocative episode of Travels Through Time, Peter Moore heads to the historian Sarah Wises flat in central London, to talk about left wing politics, life and labour in the imperial capital in the year 1889.

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  8. Apr 4, 2024 · 'Is there any miscarriage of justice more grievous than a badly framed law? The historian Sarah Wise makes a powerful case for the prosecution in The Undesirables, a staggering study of 1913's largely forgotten Mental Deficiency Act... Wise's book bristles with injustices.' —Sunday Telegraph,