Michael Sadleir
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Michael Sadleir (1888–1957) was a British novelist and book collector. He was born Michael Sadler but when he began to publish he altered the spelling of his name to differentiate himself from his father, Michael Ernest Sadler, a historian and university administrator who worked at the universities of Manchester and Leeds.
Sadleir was director of the publishing firm of Constable & Co., a British delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, a member of the secretariat of the League of Nations, a novelist, a bibliographer and book collector. As collector and literary historian he specialized in 19th century English fiction, notably the work of Anthony Trollope.
His best known novel is Fanny by Gaslight (1940), filmed in 1944, a fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London. His writings also include a biography of his father.
Sadleir's remarkable collection of Victorian fiction, now at the UCLA Department of Special Collections, is the subject of a catalogue published in 1951.
[edit] Writings
- Trollope: a commentary - 1927
- Trollope: a bibliography - 1928
- Bulwer: a panorama - 1931
- Fanny by Gaslight (Appleton-Century) - 1940
- XIX Century Fiction: a bibliographical record (Constable & Co. and University of California Press) - 1951
[edit] Film versions
- Fanny by Gaslight - 1944 (US title: Man of Evil)
[edit] External links
- Online text of a brief autobiography, PASSAGES FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BIBLIOMANIAC, first published in 1951 as the introduction to his XIX Century Fiction: a bibliographical record, and reprinted separately in 1962.
- Sadleir MSS and Sadleir MSS III brief descriptions of manuscripts at the Lilly Library, Indiana University
- Wishful Thinking gravestones of Michael Sadleir and of a relative, Michael Thomas Sadler (born 1916, died 1942)
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