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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (5 February 1856,

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author and academic.

Life

Educated at

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Cheltenham College ("Work Conquers All") , established = , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent School Day and Boarding School , religion = Church of England , president = , head_label = Head , head = Nicola Huggett ...

, and

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, in 1879 Sladen migrated to

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, where he became the first

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of history in the new

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. 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) * ''

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'' (1886), an epic drama * ''The Spanish Armada'' (1888) * ''The Japs at Home'' (1892) * ''A Japanese Marriage'' (1895) * ''A Sicilian Marriage'' (1905) * ''Queer Things About Sicily'' with

Norma Lorimer Norma Octavia Lorimer (1864–1948) was a Scots novelist and travel writer, who has been called "One of the most notable early female novelists of the Isle of Man." Biography Lorimer was born in Auchterarder, Perthshire, the eighth and youngest d ...

(1905) * ''Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient'' (1906) * ''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

External links

* *
Australian Dictionary of Biography entryResearching Biography: Who is Douglas Sladen?
* * * ''Twenty Years of my Life'' (New York: EP Dutton & Company Publishers, 1913)
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Writers from London English writers People educated at Temple Grove School Australian people of English descent People educated at Cheltenham College 1856 births 1947 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford {{england-writer-stub