Matthew Sturgis: Difference between revisions
m →Career: Adding archives to assist with Wikipedia:Verifiability, WP:SOURCEACCESS |
m Importing Wikidata short description: "British historian and biographer" |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|British historian and biographer}} |
|||
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} |
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} |
||
[[File:Matthew Sturgis 20181129.jpg|thumb|Matthew Sturgis, [[Hatchards]], London, November 2018]] |
[[File:Matthew Sturgis 20181129.jpg|thumb|Matthew Sturgis, [[Hatchards]], London, November 2018]] |
||
Revision as of 08:26, 18 June 2022
Matthew Sturgis is a British historian and biographer.
Early life
Sturgis earned a degree in history at the University of Oxford.[1]
Career
Sturgis has written art criticism for Harpers & Queens, travel journalism for The Sunday Telegraph, book reviews for The Independent, and cartoons for the Oldie and the Daily Mail.[1]
The Independent called his 1998 Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography "impressively researched".[2]
Reviewing Oscar: A Life in The Guardian, Anthony Quinn wrote "he is a tremendous orchestrator of material, fastidious, unhurried, indefatigable."[3] The Evening Standard, called it "sympathetic and insightful", and "much better" than the last major biography of Wilde, by Richard Ellman thirty years earlier.[4]
Personal life
He is married to the art dealer and gallerist Rebecca Hossack, and they live in a Georgian house in Fitzrovia, London.[5]
Publications
- 1992 and All This, Macmillan, 1991
- Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, Macmillan, 1995[1]
- Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography, 1998[2]
- 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family with Mark McCrum, Macmillan, London, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7522-1711-6
- Walter Sickert: A Life, 2005[1]
- Oscar: A Life Head of Zeus, 2018
References
- ^ a b c d "Matthew Sturgis". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography, By Matthew Sturgis". The Independent. 27 January 2012. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ Quinn, Anthony (1 October 2018). "Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis – review". Retrieved 5 December 2018 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis – review". Evening Standard. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ "The London Magazine". www.thelondonmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  | This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |