Judith Flanders is the author of critically acclaimed 'A Circle of Sisters' -- a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin -- which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the bestselling 'The Victorian House -- Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed' and the highly acclaimed 'Comsuming Passions'. She is a frequent contributor to the 'Daily Telegraph', the 'Guardian', the 'Evening Standard', and the 'Times Literary Supplement'. She lives in London.