Matthew Sturgis
British historian and biographer
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Early life
Sturgis earned a degree in history at the University of Oxford.[2]
Career
Sturgis has written art criticism for Harpers & Queen, travel journalism for The Sunday Telegraph, book reviews for The Independent, and cartoons for the Oldie and the Daily Mail.[2]
The Independent called his 1998 Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography "impressively researched".[3]
Reviewing Walter Sickert: A Life, Sickert scholar Richard Shone concluded, "At last Sickert has the biography he deserves".[4] Another reviewer found Sturgis "marvelous in capturing the sparkling eccentricities of his subject along with the changing fads and fashions to which Sickert was throughout his long life so sensitive".[5]
Reviewing Oscar: A Life in The Guardian, Anthony Quinn wrote "he is a tremendous orchestrator of material, fastidious, unhurried, indefatigable."[6] The Evening Standard, called it "sympathetic and insightful", and "much better" than the last major biography of Wilde, by Richard Ellman thirty years earlier.[7]
Personal life
Publications
- 1992 and All This, Macmillan, 1991
- Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, Macmillan, 1995[2]
- Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography, 1998[3]
- 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family with Mark McCrum, Macmillan, London, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7522-1711-6
- Walter Sickert: A Life, 2005[2]
- Oscar: A Life, Head of Zeus, 2018. Published in the U.S. as Oscar Wilde: A Life, Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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