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.[1]
Reviewing Oscar: A Life in The Guardian, Anthony Quinn wrote "he is a tremendous orchestrator of material, fastidious, unhurried, indefatigable."[2] The Evening Standard, called it "sympathetic and insightful", and "much better" than the last major biography of Wilde, by Richard Ellman thirty years ago.[3]
Personal life
He is married to the art dealer and gallerist Rebecca Hossack, and they live in a Georgian house in Fitzrovia, London.[4]
Publications
- Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, Macmillan, 1995[1]
- Walter Sickert: A Life[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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.thelondonmagazine.co.uk/interiors-gardens/celebrity-homes/rebecca-hossack-.html
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