Patricia J. Anderson

Background

Mrs. Anderson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on January 13, 1950. She was a daughter of David E. (in business) and Jeanne (a homemaker; maiden name, Nahomoff) Runnels.

Education

Patricia J. Anderson graduated from the University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Education, 1973, Master of Arts, 1981, Doctor of Philosophy, 1989.

Career

Mrs. Anderson worked variously as a high school teacher and freelance copyeditor/proofreader in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1973-1989. She was an independent scholar, London, England, 1989-1991. Since 1993 Mrs. Anderson was a freelance writer and historian.

Achievements

• Patricia J. Anderson is a noted authority on British popular culture and publishing during the nineteenth century.

Works

• book

  • When Passion Reigned: Sex And The Victorians

    (Dispelling popular conceptions that view the Victorian er...)

  • The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860 (Clarendon Paperbacks)

    (In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, literacy was by no mea...)

  • Passion Lost: Public Sex, Private Desire in the Twentieth Century

    (While sex has been historically a private matter, in the ...)

Membership

• Member of various writing organizations in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.

Interests

• Symphony, opera, and dining out, interior decorating, gardening, and local history.

Connections

Mrs. Anderson married William C. Anderson (in business) on June 17, 1973.

Father:

David E. Runnels

Mother:

Jeanne Runnels

husband:

William C. Anderson