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Edwin William Pugh (1874 - 5 February 1930) was an English writer. He published 33 books, primarily novels and short story collections, and focused on working-class "cockney school" storylines.
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The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
p. 514 (1989)
(1897) and ''The Man of Straw'' (1896), Pugh left his job as a clerk to write full-time.Edwin William Pugh (1874-1930)
The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street
p. 235-37 (1985) He died in London on 5 February 1930.(6 February 1930)
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p. 718 (1972) * ''A Street In Suburbia'' (1895) * ''The Man of Straw'' (1896) * ''Tony Drum: a Cockney Boy'' (1898) * ''King Circumstance'' (1898) * ''The Rogue's Paradise: An Extravaganza'' (1898) (with Charles Gleig) * ''Mother-sister'' (1900) * ''The Heritage'' (1901) (with G. Burchett) * ''The Stumbling-Block'' (1903) * ''The Fruit of the Vine'' (1904) * ''The Purple Head'' (1905) * ''The Spoilers'' (1906) * ''The Shuttlecock'' (1907) * ''The Broken Honeymoon'' (1908) * ''Charles Dickens: The Apostle of the People'' (1908) * ''The Enchantress'' (1908) * ''Peter Vandy: a biography in outline'' (1909) * ''The Mockingbird'' (1910) * ''The Charles Dickens Originals'' (1912) * ''The City of the World: A Book About London and the Londoners'' (1912) * ''Harry the Cockney'' (1912) * ''The Proof of the Pudding'' (1913) * ''Punch and Judy'' (1914) * ''The Cockney at Home: Stories and Studies of London Life and Character'' (1914) * ''The Phantom Peer: An Extravaganza'' (1914) * ''The Quick and The Dead: A Tragedy of Temperaments'' (1914) * ''A Book of Laughter'' (1916) * ''Slings and Arrows: A Book of Essays'' (1916) * ''The Eyes of a Child'' (1917) * ''The Great Unborn: A Dream of To-morrow'' (1918) * ''The Way of the Wicked'' (1921) * ''The Secret Years: Further Adventures of Tobias Morgan'' (1923) * ''The World Is My Oyster'' (1924) * ''Empty Vessels'' (1926)
The Man of Straw
(1896) (Google books full text online)
King Circumstance
(1898) (Google books full text online) {{DEFAULTSORT:Pugh, Edwin 1874 births 1930 deaths Writers from London 19th-century English novelists 20th-century English novelists English male novelists 19th-century English male writers 20th-century English male writers
Edwin William Pugh (1874 - 5 February 1930) was an English writer. He published 33 books, primarily novels and short story collections, and focused on working-class "cockney school" storylines.
The Modernist Journals Project The Modernist Journals Project (MJP) was created in 1995 at Brown University in order to create a database of digitized periodicals connected with the period loosely associated with modernism. The University of Tulsa joined in 2003. The MJP's websit ...
finds that "Pugh's fiction largely goes unread today, and those critics who have read him generally accuse him of sentimentality and melodrama." He also wrote literary criticism praising the works of Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
.Sutherland, JohnThe Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
p. 514 (1989)
Life
Pugh was born at 47, Foley Street,Marylebone
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, London, the second of four children of David Walter Pugh (1843-1887), a theatrical property maker and player with the Covent Garden orchestra. After positive reviews of his first two books, ''A Street in Suburbia'' (1895) (a collection of short stories, published when he was 21 years old)Advertising for ''A Street in Suburbia''(1897) and ''The Man of Straw'' (1896), Pugh left his job as a clerk to write full-time.Edwin William Pugh (1874-1930)
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(Retrieved 8 August 2012) After a few years of good fortune, however, Pugh's working class output lost favor, and he struggled with poverty for the rest of his life.Cross, NigelThe Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street
p. 235-37 (1985) He died in London on 5 February 1930.(6 February 1930)
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Bibliography
Works published by Pugh include:The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. 4 (1900-1950)p. 718 (1972) * ''A Street In Suburbia'' (1895) * ''The Man of Straw'' (1896) * ''Tony Drum: a Cockney Boy'' (1898) * ''King Circumstance'' (1898) * ''The Rogue's Paradise: An Extravaganza'' (1898) (with Charles Gleig) * ''Mother-sister'' (1900) * ''The Heritage'' (1901) (with G. Burchett) * ''The Stumbling-Block'' (1903) * ''The Fruit of the Vine'' (1904) * ''The Purple Head'' (1905) * ''The Spoilers'' (1906) * ''The Shuttlecock'' (1907) * ''The Broken Honeymoon'' (1908) * ''Charles Dickens: The Apostle of the People'' (1908) * ''The Enchantress'' (1908) * ''Peter Vandy: a biography in outline'' (1909) * ''The Mockingbird'' (1910) * ''The Charles Dickens Originals'' (1912) * ''The City of the World: A Book About London and the Londoners'' (1912) * ''Harry the Cockney'' (1912) * ''The Proof of the Pudding'' (1913) * ''Punch and Judy'' (1914) * ''The Cockney at Home: Stories and Studies of London Life and Character'' (1914) * ''The Phantom Peer: An Extravaganza'' (1914) * ''The Quick and The Dead: A Tragedy of Temperaments'' (1914) * ''A Book of Laughter'' (1916) * ''Slings and Arrows: A Book of Essays'' (1916) * ''The Eyes of a Child'' (1917) * ''The Great Unborn: A Dream of To-morrow'' (1918) * ''The Way of the Wicked'' (1921) * ''The Secret Years: Further Adventures of Tobias Morgan'' (1923) * ''The World Is My Oyster'' (1924) * ''Empty Vessels'' (1926)
See also
* Boll, Theophilus Ernest Martin. ''The works of Edwin Pugh (1874-1930): a chapter in the novel of humble London life'' (1934) * Brome, Vincent. ''Four Realist Novelists :Arthur Morrison
Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 – 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for realistic novels, for stories about working-class life in the East End of London, and for detective stories featuring a specific detect ...
, Edwin Pugh, Richard Whiteing
Richard Whiteing (27 July 1840 – 29 June 1928) was an English author and journalist.
Biography
Richard Whiteing was born in London the son of Mary Lander and William Whiteing, a civil servant employed as an Inland Revenue Officer. His mothe ...
, William Pett Ridge
William Pett Ridge (22 April 18592 October 1930) was an English fiction writer, born at Chartham, near Canterbury, Kent, and educated at Marden, Kent, and at the Birkbeck Institute, London. He was for some time a clerk in the Railway Clearing Ho ...
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References
External links
The Man of Straw
(1896) (Google books full text online)
King Circumstance
(1898) (Google books full text online) {{DEFAULTSORT:Pugh, Edwin 1874 births 1930 deaths Writers from London 19th-century English novelists 20th-century English novelists English male novelists 19th-century English male writers 20th-century English male writers