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Name
  
Douglas Sladen


Role
  
Author

Douglas Sladen httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Died
  
February 12, 1947, Hove, United Kingdom

Education
  
Trinity College, Oxford, University of Melbourne

Books
  
Oriental Cairo: The City of the, The Tragedy of the Pyra, Queer Things about Eg, Germany's Great Lie: The Offici, Queer Things about Jap

Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (5 February 1856, London-12 February 1947, Hove) was an English author and academic.

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Life

Educated at Temple Grove School, East Sheen, 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. 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)
  • Egypt and the English (1908)
  • Queer Things About Egypt (1911)
  • The Unholy Estate (1912)
  • Twenty Years of my Life (1913)
  • Queer Things about Japan (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

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