Douglas Sladen
Douglas Sladen
Queer Things About Egypt (1911)
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (5 February 1856, London-12 February 1947, Hove) was an English author and academic.
Life[]
Educated at Temple Grove School, East Sheen,[1] Cheltenham College, and Trinity College, Oxford, in 1879 Sladen migrated to Australia, where he became the first professor of history in the new University of Sydney.[2] Subsequently he traveled much and settled in London as a writer. Poems by Margaret Thomas were included in a work in the 1880s.
Selected publications[]
His work includes:
- Frithjof and Ingebjorg (1882)
- Poetry of Exiles (1883)
- In Cornwall and Across the Sea (1885)
- Edward the Black Prince (1886), an epic drama
- The Spanish Armada (1888)
- The Japs at Home (1892)
- A Japanese Marriage (1895)
- A Sicilian Marriage (1905)
- Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient (1906)
- Egypt and the English (1908)
- Queer Things About Egypt (1911)
- The Unholy Estate (1912)
- Twenty Years of my Life (1913)
- Queer Things about Japan[3] (1913)
- The Real "Truth about Germany" (1914)
- His German Wife (1915)
- Fair Inez: A Romance of Australia (1918)
- Paul's Wife: or "The Ostriches" (1919)
- My Long Life (1939)
References[]
- ^ Current Opinion, vol. 6 (1891), p. 23
- ^ Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1905). "Sladen, Douglas (Brooke Wheelton)". Who's Who. Vol. 57. p. 1483.
- ^ Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (November 2, 1912). "Queer things about Japan". K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd; E. P. Duttton & co. – via Hathi Trust.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia. XVIII (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 224.
External links[]
Media related to Douglas Sladen at Wikimedia Commons
Works related to author:Douglas Sladen at Wikisource- Australian Dictionary of Biography entry
- Researching Biography: Who is Douglas Sladen?
- Works by or about Douglas Sladen at Internet Archive
- Works by Douglas Sladen at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Twenty Years of my Life (New York: EP Dutton & Company Publishers, 1913), archive.org
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