Anthony S. Wohl was born in London in 1937. He read history at Cambridge before turning his attention to the subject of this book for his PhD at Brown University in Rhode Island. He has taught at Vassar College since 1963 and is now Ellery Professor of History there. He has served terms as a visiting lecturer to the Universities of Leicester and British Columbia. He is also author of Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian and Edwardian England and editor of The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, The Victorian Family: Structure and Stresses, and Ragged London in 1861.
-The Eternal Slum remains as important and original today as it did
when it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. In vivid
and accessible prose, Wohl makes the dreariest of subjects - the
abject squalor and misery in the slums of Victorian London - come
alive. Combining meticulous social [and] historical analysis of
housing with keen attention to the ways in which slums and
slum-dwellers were represented, Wohl expertly traces the genesis of
housing policies and politics in Victorian Britain.- --Seth Koven,
Villanova University
"The Eternal Slum remains as important and original today as it did
when it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. In vivid
and accessible prose, Wohl makes the dreariest of subjects - the
abject squalor and misery in the slums of Victorian London - come
alive. Combining meticulous social [and] historical analysis of
housing with keen attention to the ways in which slums and
slum-dwellers were represented, Wohl expertly traces the genesis of
housing policies and politics in Victorian Britain." --Seth Koven,
Villanova University
"The Eternal Slum remains as important and original today as it did
when it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. In vivid
and accessible prose, Wohl makes the dreariest of subjects - the
abject squalor and misery in the slums of Victorian London - come
alive. Combining meticulous social [and] historical analysis of
housing with keen attention to the ways in which slums and
slum-dwellers were represented, Wohl expertly traces the genesis of
housing policies and politics in Victorian Britain." --Seth Koven,
Villanova University
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