Victoria Williams, PhD, is an independent writer and researcher living in London. She is the author of ABC-CLIO’s Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing (winner of the 2016 RUSA Outstanding Reference Sources Award); Celebrating Life Customs around the World: From Baby Showers to Funerals; Indigenous Peoples: An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival; and London: Geography, History and Culture. She is also the coeditor of ABC-CLIO’s Etiquette and Taboos around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs. Williams wrote her PhD thesis on fairytales in Victorian literature and art and on film, and she has written on a variety of other subjects, including Hollywood ?lm, London society and culture, Mesoamerican mythology, Victorian literature, U.S. folklore, and British folk customs. She has also lectured on Victoria fairy paintings and depictions of childhood in 1940s film. In the past, Williams has worked as an editorial assistant on a leading British food magazine and run a small business selling traditional British cakes at artisan markets. Currently, alongside her writing, Williams runs a West London market championing local makers, including food producers.
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