Douglas Sladen

Douglas Sladen

Queer Things About Egypt (1911)

Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (5 February 1856, London-12 February 1947, Hove) was an English author. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and went to Australia (1879), where he became the first professor of history in the University of Sydney. Subsequently he traveled much and settled in London as a writer. Poems by Margaret Thomas were included in a work in the 1880s. His work includes:

• Frithjof and Ingebjorg (1882)
• Poetry of Exiles (1883)
• In Cornwall and Across the Sea (1885)
• Edward the Black Prince (1886), an epic drama
• The Spanish Armada (1888)
• The Japs at Home (1892)
• A Japanese Marriage (1895)
• A Sicilian Marriage (1905)
• 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)

External links

• Australian Dictionary of Biography entry
• Researching Biography: Who is Douglas Sladen?
• Twenty Years of my Life (New York: EP Dutton & Company Publishers, 1913), archive.org

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.