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My research into Victorians for my novel revealed much about the period – it was a time of great financial success, accompanied by great booms and the rapid expansion of the middle class. But there was a much darker side, too.
‘You’ll be aware of Dickens and his descriptions – Fagin, workhouses and so on – but who were George Hudson ‘the railway king’, beloved scion of York, and ‘Baron’ Grant, with his Central Uruguay Railway, Cadiz Waterworks and Labuan Coal Company? These and more wreaked their worst (and best) during these times of expansion.
Australian Judy (Judith) Crozier has been writing for much of her life – from a melodramatic thirty-page epic written at the age of 12 (reversing her friends’ names to make her characters sound foreign) to now. In between, she has been a journalist and an award-winning short story writer. She has also been a community worker, local government representative, a creative writing teacher, a singing teacher and a blues singer, an editor of journals and a proof-reader for seven years of the Victoria Government Gazette, in the State of Victoria, Australia. ‘I believe you can get less for murder,’ she laughs.
