John Pemble

John Pemble is a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol. His books include Venice Rediscovered and The Mediterranean Passion.

In the LRB Archive:

• Resurrecting the Tudors: James Anthony Froude · 23 May 2013

  • James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet by Ciaran Brady

• So Very Silent: Victorian Corpse Trade · 25 October 2012

  • Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834-1929 by Elizabeth Hurren
  • Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson

• The Only True Throne: ‘Muckraker’ · 19 July 2012

  • Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W.T. Stead by W. Sydney Robinson

• Gaslight and Fog: Sherlock Holmes · 26 January 2012

  • The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England by Haia Shpayer-Makov

• Respectful Perversion: Gilbert and Sullivan · 16 June 2011

  • Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody by Carolyn Williams

• High Taxes, Bad Times: Late Georgian Westminster · 10 June 2010

  • The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1820-32 by D.R. Fisher

• Happy Bunnies: Cousin Marriage · 25 February 2010

  • Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England by Adam Kuper

• Golden Dolly: Rich Britons · 24 September 2009

  • Who Were the Rich? A Biographical Directory of British Wealth-Holders. Vol. I: 1809-39 by William Rubinstein

• Shopping for Soap, Fudge and Biscuit Tins: Literary Tourists · 7 June 2007

  • The Literary Tourist by Nicola J. Watson

• Leisure’s Epitaph: the Victorians · 8 March 2007

  • Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders

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