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Michael Sadleir

February 04, 2023

Michael Sadleir (25 December 1888 – 13 December 1957[2]), born Michael Thomas Harvey Sadler, was a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer.

Michael Sadleir
BornMichael Thomas Harvey Sadler
(1888-12-25)25 December 1888
Oxford, England
Died13 December 1957(1957-12-13) (aged 68)
The London Clinic, London, England[1]
Occupation
NationalityBritish
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Period20th century
Genre
SpouseEdith "Betty" Tupper-Carey (1914–his death)
ChildrenAnn Penelope Hornby (née Sadler)
Michael Thomas Carey Sadler
Richard Ferribee Sadler
ParentsSir Michael Ernest Sadler (father)
RelativesMary Ann Harvey (mother)

Biography

 
Bookplate of Michael Sadleir
 
Michael Sadleir's grave and memorial at Bisley Burial Ground, Bisley, Gloucestershire, England

Michael Sadleir was born in Oxford, England, the son of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler and Mary Ann Harvey.[3] He adopted the older variant of his surname to differentiate himself from his father, a historian, educationist, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.[4][5] Sadleir was educated at Rugby School and was a contemporary of Rupert Brooke, with whom he was romantically involved, and Geoffrey Keynes.[6] He then attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he read history and won the 1912 Stanhope essay prize on the political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.[7] Before the First World War, Sadleir and his father were keen collectors of art,[8] and purchased works by young English artists such as Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler.[9][10] They were amongst the first collectors (and certainly the first English collectors) of the paintings of the Russian-born German Expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky.[11][12] In 1913, both Sadleir and his father travelled to Germany to meet Kandinsky in Munich.[13] This visit led to Sadleir translating into English Kandinsky's seminal written work on expressionism, Concerning the Spiritual in Art in 1914. This was one of the first coherent arguments for abstract art in the English language and the translation by Sadleir was seen as both crucial to understanding Kandinsky's theories about abstract art and as a key text in the history of modernism.[14] Extracts from it were published in the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST in 1914,[15] and it remained one of the most influential art texts of the first decades of the twentieth century.[16]

Sadleir began to work for the publishing firm of Constable & Co. in 1912, becoming a director in 1920,[17] and chairman in 1954.[citation needed] In 1920 as editor of Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield for Constable he insisted on censoring sections of her short story Je ne parle pas français which show the cynical attitudes to love and sex of the narrator. Her husband John Middleton Murry persuaded Sadleir to reduce the cuts slightly (Murry and Sadleir had founded the avant-garde quarterly Rhythm in 1912).[18]

After the end of World War I, he served as a British delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and worked at the secretariat of the newly formed League of Nations.[17] As a literary historian, he specialised in 19th century English fiction, notably the work of Anthony Trollope. Together with Ian Fleming and others, Sadleir was a director and contributor to The Book Handbook, later renamed The Book Collector, published by Queen Anne Press. He also conducted research on Gothic fiction and discovered rare original editions of the Northanger Horrid Novels mentioned in the novel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Beforehand, some of these books, with their lurid titles, were thought to be figments of Austen's imagination.[19] Sadleir and Montague Summers demonstrated that they did really exist. In 1937, he was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge University, on the subject of the "Bibliographical Aspects of the Victorian Novel".[20] He was President of the Bibliographical Society from 1944 to 1946.[21]

Sadleir's best known novel was Fanny by Gaslight (1940), a fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London. It was adapted under that name as a 1944 film. The 1947 novel Forlorn Sunset further explored the characters of the Victorian London underworld. His writings also include a biography of his father, published in 1949, and a privately published memoir of one of his sons, who was killed in World War II.

The remarkable collection of Victorian fiction compiled by Sadleir, now at the UCLA Department of Special Collections, is the subject of a catalogue published in 1951. His collection of Gothic fiction is at the University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.

Sadleir lived at Througham Court, Bisley, in Gloucestershire, a fine Jacobean farmhouse altered for him by the architect Norman Jewson, c. 1929.[22] He sold Througham Court in 1949[23][24] and moved to Willow Farm, Oakley Green, in Berkshire.[2]

Bibliography

 
Michael Sadleir book sticker
  • Privilege: A Novel of the Transition (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921) (The Knickerbocker Library)
  • Excursions in Victorian Bibliography (London: Chaundy & Cox, 1922)
  • Daumier: The Man and the Artist (London, Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1924)
  • Desolate Splendour (1923)
  • The Noblest Frailty (1925)
  • Trollope: A Commentary (1927)
  • Trollope: A Bibliography (London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1928)
  • The Northanger Novels (London: The English Association, 1927) (Pamphlet No. 68)
  • Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles (1930)
  • Bulwer and His Wife: A Panorama, 1803-1836 (London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1931)
  • Authors and Publishers: A Study in Mutual Esteem (1932)
  • Blessington D'Orsay: A Masquerade (1933)
  • Archdeacon Francis Wrangham (1937)
  • These Foolish Things (London: Constable, 1937)
  • Collecting "Yellowbacks", (London: Constable & Co., 1938) (Aspects of Book-Collecting series).
  • Fanny by Gaslight (London: Constable & Co., 1940; New York: Penguin Books, 1981)
  • Things Past (London: Constable, 1944)
  • Forlorn Sunset (London: Constable, 1947)
  • XIX Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Record (Constable & Co. and University of California Press, 1951)
  • The Sadleir Library (1955)

See also

References

  1. ^ Sadler, Michael (3 June 1958). "Probate Record". probatesearch.service.gov.uk. p. 4. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Derek Hudson, 'Sadleir, Michael Thomas Harvey (1888–1957)', rev. Sayoni Basu, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (subscriber access only)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35904. Retrieved 9 May 2008. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Michael Sadleir Papers, 1797–1958, unc.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Monopolising the Kicks", Yorkshire Evening Post, 6 April 1923, p. 8. British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 24 February 2020. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Stokes, Roy (1980). Michael Sadleir, 1888-1957 (loan required). Internet Archive. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780810812925.
  6. ^ Brooke, Rupert; Strachey, James (1998). Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914. Yale University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-300-07004-0.
  7. ^ Sadleir, Michael; Sheridan, Elizabeth Ann (1912). The political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: the Stanhope essay for 1912 : followed by some hitherto unpublished letters of Mrs. Sheridan. Oxford; London: B.H. Blackwell ; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. OCLC 1358737.
  8. ^ Piper, John; Ernest Brown & Phillips (1944). Catalogue of an exhibition of selected paintings, drawings and sculpture from the collection of the late Sir Michael Sadler ...: [exhibition] Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd., the Leicester Galleries ... London, Jan.-Feb., 1944. London: The Gallery. ISBN 9781406731255. OCLC 80686873.
  9. ^ Tate. "'The Roundabout', Sir Stanley Spencer, 1923". Tate. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  10. ^ Tate. "'The Artist's Mother', Mark Gertler, 1911". Tate. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  11. ^ Glew, Adrian (1997). "'Blue Spiritual Sounds': Kandinsky and the Sadlers, 1911-16". The Burlington Magazine. 139 (1134): 600–615. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 887464. (subscription required)
  12. ^ "Bonhams : FRANZ MARC (1880-1916) Pferd (Executed in 1912)". www.bonhams.com. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  13. ^ Tom Steele, Alfred Orage and the Leeds Arts Club (1893–1923) (Aldershot, Ashgate 1990) p. 179.
  14. ^ Tate. "Important Kandinsky letters and poems fully published in English for the first time – Press Release". Tate. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  15. ^ "BLAST no. 1, the Vorticist magazine". The British Library. pp. 143–144. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  16. ^ Tate. "Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions": Kandinsky – Tate Etc". Tate. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  17. ^ a b "The Times Digital Archive - Mr. Michael Sadleir". go.gale.com. 16 December 1957. p. 10. Retrieved 24 February 2020. (subscription required)
  18. ^ Alpers, Antony, ed. (1984). The Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Auckland: Oxford University Press. pp. 551, 560. ISBN 0-19-558113-X.
  19. ^ Sadleir, Michael (1927). A Footnote to Jane Austen. Oxford: OUP.
  20. ^ Waldoch, Laura (18 December 2014). "List of Sandars Readers and lecture subjects". www.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  21. ^ The Bibliographical Society – Past Presidents 4 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine, bibsoc.org.uk (archived webpage). Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  22. ^ "Lower Througham Farm, Througham (Bisley)" (1930) [Extracts from a conveyance]. Bruton Knowles and Co of Gloucester, estate agents, surveyors and auctioneers, Series: Estate agency files, c.1870-1980s. Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England: Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucestershire County Council.
  23. ^ "Bisley: Manors and other estates". British History Online. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  24. ^ Sadleir, M (1949). Berkshire Telephone Directory, Maidenhead Exchange. High Holborn: BT PLC. p. 117.

External links

  • , Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac

Library collections

  • "Nineteenth Century Literature". UCLA Library Research Guides. University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved 7 April 2017. More than 4600 titles mainly from the 19th century including important novelists, series, and cheaply published yellowbacks.
  • The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. collection of Gothic fiction titles assembled by Sadleir, Arthur Hutchinson and Robert Kerr Black.
  • Michael Sadleir Papers, 1797–1958 description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Michael Sadleir papers, MSS 2053 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
  • Sadleir MSS, Sadleir MSS II and Sadleir MSS III brief descriptions of manuscripts at the Lilly Library, Indiana University

Online editions

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This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations October 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message Michael Sadleir 25 December 1888 13 December 1957 2 born Michael Thomas Harvey Sadler was a British publisher novelist book collector and bibliographer Michael SadleirBornMichael Thomas Harvey Sadler 1888 12 25 25 December 1888Oxford EnglandDied13 December 1957 1957 12 13 aged 68 The London Clinic London England 1 OccupationWriternovelistpublisherNationalityBritishAlma materBalliol College OxfordPeriod20th centuryGenreHistoryfictionSpouseEdith Betty Tupper Carey 1914 his death ChildrenAnn Penelope Hornby nee Sadler Michael Thomas Carey SadlerRichard Ferribee SadlerParentsSir Michael Ernest Sadler father RelativesMary Ann Harvey mother Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 See also 4 References 5 External links 5 1 Library collections 5 2 Online editionsBiography Edit Bookplate of Michael Sadleir Michael Sadleir s grave and memorial at Bisley Burial Ground Bisley Gloucestershire England Michael Sadleir was born in Oxford England the son of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler and Mary Ann Harvey 3 He adopted the older variant of his surname to differentiate himself from his father a historian educationist and Vice Chancellor of the University of Leeds 4 5 Sadleir was educated at Rugby School and was a contemporary of Rupert Brooke with whom he was romantically involved and Geoffrey Keynes 6 He then attended Balliol College Oxford where he read history and won the 1912 Stanhope essay prize on the political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 7 Before the First World War Sadleir and his father were keen collectors of art 8 and purchased works by young English artists such as Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler 9 10 They were amongst the first collectors and certainly the first English collectors of the paintings of the Russian born German Expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky 11 12 In 1913 both Sadleir and his father travelled to Germany to meet Kandinsky in Munich 13 This visit led to Sadleir translating into English Kandinsky s seminal written work on expressionism Concerning the Spiritual in Art in 1914 This was one of the first coherent arguments for abstract art in the English language and the translation by Sadleir was seen as both crucial to understanding Kandinsky s theories about abstract art and as a key text in the history of modernism 14 Extracts from it were published in the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST in 1914 15 and it remained one of the most influential art texts of the first decades of the twentieth century 16 Sadleir began to work for the publishing firm of Constable amp Co in 1912 becoming a director in 1920 17 and chairman in 1954 citation needed In 1920 as editor of Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield for Constable he insisted on censoring sections of her short story Je ne parle pas francais which show the cynical attitudes to love and sex of the narrator Her husband John Middleton Murry persuaded Sadleir to reduce the cuts slightly Murry and Sadleir had founded the avant garde quarterly Rhythm in 1912 18 After the end of World War I he served as a British delegate to the Paris Peace Conference 1919 and worked at the secretariat of the newly formed League of Nations 17 As a literary historian he specialised in 19th century English fiction notably the work of Anthony Trollope Together with Ian Fleming and others Sadleir was a director and contributor to The Book Handbook later renamed The Book Collector published by Queen Anne Press He also conducted research on Gothic fiction and discovered rare original editions of the Northanger Horrid Novels mentioned in the novel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Beforehand some of these books with their lurid titles were thought to be figments of Austen s imagination 19 Sadleir and Montague Summers demonstrated that they did really exist In 1937 he was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge University on the subject of the Bibliographical Aspects of the Victorian Novel 20 He was President of the Bibliographical Society from 1944 to 1946 21 Sadleir s best known novel was Fanny by Gaslight 1940 a fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London It was adapted under that name as a 1944 film The 1947 novel Forlorn Sunset further explored the characters of the Victorian London underworld His writings also include a biography of his father published in 1949 and a privately published memoir of one of his sons who was killed in World War II The remarkable collection of Victorian fiction compiled by Sadleir now at the UCLA Department of Special Collections is the subject of a catalogue published in 1951 His collection of Gothic fiction is at the University of Virginia Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Sadleir lived at Througham Court Bisley in Gloucestershire a fine Jacobean farmhouse altered for him by the architect Norman Jewson c 1929 22 He sold Througham Court in 1949 23 24 and moved to Willow Farm Oakley Green in Berkshire 2 Bibliography Edit Michael Sadleir book sticker Privilege A Novel of the Transition New York and London G P Putnam s Sons 1921 The Knickerbocker Library Excursions in Victorian Bibliography London Chaundy amp Cox 1922 Daumier The Man and the Artist London Halton amp Truscott Smith Ltd 1924 Desolate Splendour 1923 The Noblest Frailty 1925 Trollope A Commentary 1927 Trollope A Bibliography London Dawsons of Pall Mall 1928 The Northanger Novels London The English Association 1927 Pamphlet No 68 Evolution of Publishers Binding Styles 1930 Bulwer and His Wife A Panorama 1803 1836 London Constable amp Co Ltd 1931 Authors and Publishers A Study in Mutual Esteem 1932 Blessington D Orsay A Masquerade 1933 Archdeacon Francis Wrangham 1937 These Foolish Things London Constable 1937 Collecting Yellowbacks London Constable amp Co 1938 Aspects of Book Collecting series Fanny by Gaslight London Constable amp Co 1940 New York Penguin Books 1981 Things Past London Constable 1944 Forlorn Sunset London Constable 1947 XIX Century Fiction A Bibliographical Record Constable amp Co and University of California Press 1951 The Sadleir Library 1955 See also EditLeeds Arts Club Bibliographical SocietyReferences Edit Sadler Michael 3 June 1958 Probate Record probatesearch service gov uk p 4 Retrieved 25 February 2020 a b Derek Hudson Sadleir Michael Thomas Harvey 1888 1957 rev Sayoni Basu Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 subscriber access only Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press 2004 doi 10 1093 ref odnb 35904 Retrieved 9 May 2008 Subscription or UK public library membership required Michael Sadleir Papers 1797 1958 unc edu Retrieved 15 July 2017 Monopolising the Kicks Yorkshire Evening Post 6 April 1923 p 8 British Newspaper Archive Retrieved 24 February 2020 subscription required Stokes Roy 1980 Michael Sadleir 1888 1957 loan required Internet Archive Metuchen N J Scarecrow Press p 4 ISBN 9780810812925 Brooke Rupert Strachey James 1998 Friends and Apostles The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey 1905 1914 Yale University Press p 8 ISBN 978 0 300 07004 0 Sadleir Michael Sheridan Elizabeth Ann 1912 The political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan the Stanhope essay for 1912 followed by some hitherto unpublished letters of Mrs Sheridan Oxford London B H Blackwell Simpkin Marshall amp Co OCLC 1358737 Piper John Ernest Brown amp Phillips 1944 Catalogue of an exhibition of selected paintings drawings and sculpture from the collection of the late Sir Michael Sadler exhibition Ernest Brown amp Phillips Ltd the Leicester Galleries London Jan Feb 1944 London The Gallery ISBN 9781406731255 OCLC 80686873 Tate The Roundabout Sir Stanley Spencer 1923 Tate Retrieved 24 February 2020 Tate The Artist s Mother Mark Gertler 1911 Tate Retrieved 24 February 2020 Glew Adrian 1997 Blue Spiritual Sounds Kandinsky and the Sadlers 1911 16 The Burlington Magazine 139 1134 600 615 ISSN 0007 6287 JSTOR 887464 subscription required Bonhams FRANZ MARC 1880 1916 Pferd Executed in 1912 www bonhams com Retrieved 24 February 2020 Tom Steele Alfred Orage and the Leeds Arts Club 1893 1923 Aldershot Ashgate 1990 p 179 Tate Important Kandinsky letters and poems fully published in English for the first time Press Release Tate Retrieved 24 February 2020 BLAST no 1 the Vorticist magazine The British Library pp 143 144 Retrieved 24 February 2020 Tate Every work of art is the child of its time often it is the mother of our emotions Kandinsky Tate Etc Tate Retrieved 24 February 2020 a b The Times Digital Archive Mr Michael Sadleir go gale com 16 December 1957 p 10 Retrieved 24 February 2020 subscription required Alpers Antony ed 1984 The Stories of Katherine Mansfield Auckland Oxford University Press pp 551 560 ISBN 0 19 558113 X Sadleir Michael 1927 A Footnote to Jane Austen Oxford OUP Waldoch Laura 18 December 2014 List of Sandars Readers and lecture subjects www lib cam ac uk Retrieved 24 February 2020 The Bibliographical Society Past Presidents Archived 4 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine bibsoc org uk archived webpage Retrieved 15 July 2017 Lower Througham Farm Througham Bisley 1930 Extracts from a conveyance Bruton Knowles and Co of Gloucester estate agents surveyors and auctioneers Series Estate agency files c 1870 1980s Clarence Row Alvin Street Gloucester Gloucestershire England Gloucestershire Archives Gloucestershire County Council Bisley Manors and other estates British History Online Retrieved 25 February 2020 Sadleir M 1949 Berkshire Telephone Directory Maidenhead Exchange High Holborn BT PLC p 117 External links EditOnline text of a brief autobiography Passages from the Autobiography of a BibliomaniacLibrary collections Edit Nineteenth Century Literature UCLA Library Research Guides University of California Los Angeles Retrieved 7 April 2017 More than 4600 titles mainly from the 19th century including important novelists series and cheaply published yellowbacks The Sadleir Black Collection of Gothic Fiction Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia collection of Gothic fiction titles assembled by Sadleir Arthur Hutchinson and Robert Kerr Black Michael Sadleir Papers 1797 1958 description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michael Sadleir papers MSS 2053 at L Tom Perry Special Collections Harold B Lee Library Brigham Young University Sadleir MSS Sadleir MSS II and Sadleir MSS III brief descriptions of manuscripts at the Lilly Library Indiana UniversityOnline editions Edit Works by Michael Sadleir at Project Gutenberg Works by Michael Sadleir at Faded Page Canada Works by or about Michael Sadleir at Internet Archive Works by Michael Sadleir at LibriVox public domain audiobooks 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