Lee Jackson (author)

For people with a similar name, see Lee Jackson (disambiguation).

Lee Jackson
Born	(1971-05-13) 13 May 1971 (age 53)
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	historian, novelist
Website	http://www.victorianlondon.org

Lee Jackson (born 1971) is a British novelist and historian.

Education and career

Jackson has a doctorate from Royal Holloway University of London and is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Dickens Museum.[1][2] He is the creator of The Dictionary of Victorian London, a widely-used free educational resource, established in 2001, that brings together digitised primary sources relating to the social history of Victorian London.[3][4][5]

Writing

Jackson has written novels, anthologies and non-fiction books, all of which focus upon the Victorian capital.[6] In 2015, he was interviewed on NPR about his book Dirty Old London (Yale UP, 2014),[7] a history of dirt, filth and pollution, described by the Guardian as "rich in wonderful contemporary details gleaned from newspapers and archives ... a vivid account of the enormous challenges faced by a city expanding at an unprecedented rate".[8] Jackson was also interviewed in print for Der Spiegel[9] He has written articles for History Today.[10] In 2021, he lectured and recorded video content for the Thames Festival Trust about North Woolwich Pleasure Gardens, as featured in his book Palaces of Pleasure (Yale UP, 2019).[11]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Jackson, Lee (2003). London Dust. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 9780099439998.
• Jackson, Lee (2004). A Metropolitan Murder. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 9780434012299.
• Jackson, Lee (2005). The Welfare of the Dead. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 9780099469230.
• Jackson, Lee (2006). The Last Pleasure Garden. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 9780099469247.
• Jackson, Lee (2007). A Most Dangerous Woman. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 9780434015528.
• Jackson, Lee (2008). The Mesmerist's Apprentice. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 9780099498421.
• Jackson, Lee (2011). The Diary of a Murder. London: Snowbooks. ISBN 9781906727932.

Non-fiction

• Jackson, Lee (2006). A Dictionary of Victorian London. London: Anthem Press. ISBN 9781843312307.
• Jackson, Lee (2012). Walking Dickens' London. London: Shire. ISBN 9780747811343.
• Jackson, Lee (2014). Dirty Old London. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300216110.
• Jackson, Lee (2019). Palaces of Pleasure. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300254785.
• Jackson, Lee (2023). Dickensland. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300266207.

References

1. Jackson, Lee (8 November 2021). "DIckens's London: The origins of a literary territory". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. "Who's Who". Charles Dickens Museum. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
3. "The Dictionary of Victorian London | open.conted.ox.ac.uk (beta)". open.conted.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
4. "ENGL 373 Victorian Crime: Online Primary Source Collections". libguides.hope.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
5. Philpotts, Trey (2016). "Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson (review)". Dickens Quarterly. 33 (2): 153–156. doi:10.1353/dqt.2016.0023. ISSN 2169-5377.
6. "Lee Jackson". www.fantasticfiction.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
7. "'Dirty Old London': A History Of The Victorians' Infamous Filth". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
8. "Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson – review". the Guardian. 1 January 2015. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
9. "(S+) »Mit der Toilette kam das Chaos«". Der Spiegel (in German). 29 May 2015. ISSN 2195-1349. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
10. "Lee Jackson | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
11. Trust, Thames Festival Trust | The Islanders: North Woolwich Pleasure Gardens Talk + Q&A @ Totally Thames 2021 | Thames Festival. "Thames Festival Trust - The Islanders: North Woolwich Pleasure Gardens Talk + Q&A @ Totally Thames 2021". Thames Festival Trust. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2022.