Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born

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, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the

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Edward Charles, was an

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, social advocate and

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. His most famous writings are ''The Sexual Impulse'', ''Mens Gods'', ''Those Thoughtful People'', ''Sand & the Blue Moss'', ''Apple Pie Bed'', ''Indian Patchwork'' (with "Mary Charles", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ''Portrait of the Artist's Children'' and ''

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''.

Life

He was educated at

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, St John's College,

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(where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor of English in Japan (where he tutored the sons of the Emperor of Japan), then a Professor at the University of Peking. He sailed to Singapore on a tramp steamer, and worked as a barman at the "Long Bar" of the

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, before returning to Oxford. He later moved to India and served as principal of a Moslem-Hindu school in central India from 1927 to 1928. He also taught in the US. In 1935, he was involved in a major trial involving the publication of his work, ''

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''. He was a major proponent of sexology, and in particular the promotion of

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Works

*'' Those Thoughtful People'' (1930) *'' Apple Pie Bed'' (1931) *'' Mens Gods'' (1931) *'' Sand & the Blue Moss'' (1931) *'' Indian Patchwork'' (1933) *'' Muscara'' (1934) *'' Portrait of the Artist's Children'' (1934) *''

'' (1935) *''

'' (1936)

References

* *Charles, Edward and Mary Charles. '' Indian patchwork'' London : Heinemann, 1933. * ''Who was who among English and European authors, 1931-1949...'' Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.

External links

University of Tulsa McFarlin Library's inventory of the Edward Charles (E.C.E. Hemsted Correspondence housed in their special collections department
1898 births Year of death missing People educated at Lancing College English writers British sexologists Alumni of St John's College, Oxford 20th-century pseudonymous writers British expatriates in Italy {{sex-stub