Robert Sherard

Robert Harborough Sherard Kennedy nació el 3 de diciembre de 1861 en Putney, Inglaterra, hijo del Reverendo Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy (hijo ilegítimo del sexto Conde de Harborough y la actriz Emma Love) y Jane Stanley Wordsworth, nieta de William Wordsworth. Dejó de utilizar el apellido Kennedy al trasladarse a París a finales de 1882.

Se casó sucesivamente con Marthe Lipska en 1887, Irene Osgood en 1908, y Alice Muriel Fiddian en 1928.

• Emile Zola: A Biographical and Critical Study. London: Chatto & Windus, 1893.
• Alphonse Daudet: a biographical and critical study (1894)
• The Life of Oscar Wilde. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1906.
• The Real Oscar Wilde: To be used as a Supplement to, and in Illustration of "The Life of Oscar Wilde". London: T. Werner Laurie, 1917.
• The Life and Evil Fate of Guy de Maupassant (1926)
• Oscar Wilde Twice Defended from André Gide's Wicked Lies and Frank Harris's Cruel Libels; to Which Is Added a Reply to George Bernard Shaw, a Refutation of Dr G.J. Renier's Statements, a Letter to the Author from Lord Alfred Douglas and an Interview with Bernard Shaw by Hugh Kingsmill. Chicago: Argus Book Shop, 1934.
• Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde. New York: Greystone Press, 1937.

• A Bartered Honour (1883)
• After the Fault (1906)

Whispers (1884)

• The White Slaves of England (l897)
• The Cry of the Poor (1901)
• The Closed Door (1902)
• The Child Slaves of Britain (1905)
• Modern Paris: Some Sidelights on Its Inner Life. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1912.

• Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship. London: privately printed, 1902. London: Greening & Co., 1905.
• Twenty Years in Paris: Being Some Recollections of a Literary Life. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905.

• University of Reading (Reading, UK) (Papers purchased 1 Feb. 1964 from Rupert Hart-Davis).

• O'Brien, Kevin H.F. "Irene Osgood, John Richmond Limited and the Wilde Circle." Publishing History 22 (1987): 73-93.
• O'Brien, Kevin H.F. "Robert Sherard: Friend of Oscar Wilde." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 28 (1985): 3-29.
• O'Brien, Kevin H.F. "Sherard, Robert Harborough." The 1890s, An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art & Culture Ed. G.A. Cevasco. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1993.