Wohl, Anthony S.

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."