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Matthew Sturgis

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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.[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 ago.[4]

He is married to the art dealer Rebecca Hossack.[5]

Publications

  • Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, Macmillan, 1995[6]
  • Walter Sickert: A Life[7]
  • Oscar: A Life Head of Zeus, 2018

References

  1. ^ https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-113520/matthew-sturgis/
  2. ^ https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-113520/matthew-sturgis/
  3. ^ Quinn, Anthony (1 October 2018). "Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis – review". Retrieved 5 December 2018 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ "Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis – review". Evening Standard. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 5 December 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  6. ^ https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-113520/matthew-sturgis/
  7. ^ https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-113520/matthew-sturgis/