Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 – 4 July 1924) was an English

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, literary scholar and

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. He was the youngest son of Robert Sayle, a wealthy salesman, and Priscilla Caroline Sayle. He served as an under-librarian at

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. His works include ''Bertha: a story of love'' (1885), ''Wicliff: an historical drama'' (1887), ''Erotidia'' (1889), ''Musa Consolatrix'' (1893), ''Private Music'' (1911) and ''Cambridge Fragments'' (1913). He also edited an anthology of verse, ''In Praise of Music'' (1897) and compiled ''Annals of Cambridge University Library; 1278-1900'' (1916). He edited the 3-volume ''Works of Sir Thomas Browne''; volumes I & II were published in 1904 by Grant Richards in London; volume III was published in 1907 by John Grant in Edinburgh. Charles Sayle's salon, a circle of bright, handsome and predominantly homosexual young men who congregated at his house in Cambridge, included

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, Augustus Bartholomew and

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. Sayle's publisher was

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, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009

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Sayle's 1893 volume of poems, ''Musa Consolatrix'', downloadable at Google Books
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sayle, Charles Edward British gay writers 1864 births 1924 deaths English librarians English LGBT poets English male poets