Henry Sutherland Edwards | |
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 In The Sketch, 6 March 1901 | |
| Born | 5 September 1928 Hendon, London, England |
| Died | 21 January 1906 (aged 77) London, England |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828–1906) was a British journalist.
Biography[edit]
He was born in Hendon on 5 September 1828, and educated in London and France.[1] He was correspondent of The Times at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia, in the camp of the insurgents at Warsaw (1862–63), and at German army headquarters during the Franco-Prussian War.
In 1865 he took over the role of chief music critic on The Morning Post from Howard Glover and he was a regular contributor to The Pall Mall Gazette.[2]
He died at his home in London on 21 January 1906, and was buried at St. John's Cemetery in Woking.[1]
Selected publications[edit]
- The Russians at Home (1861)
- The Polish Captivity: An Account of the Present Position of the Poles in the Kingdom of Poland, and in the Polish Provinces of Austria, Prussia, and Russia (1863)
- The Life of Rossini (1869)
- The Germans in France (1874)
- The Russians at Home and the Russians Abroad (1879, Vol. 1 is an abridgment of the 1861 book Russians at Home. Vol. 2 deals with political issues.)
- The Lyrical Drama: Essays on Subjects, Composers, & Executants of Modern Opera (1881)[3]
- The Case of Reuben Malachi (1886)
- The Prima Donna: Her History and Surroundings from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (two volumes, 1888)
- Rossini and His School (1895)
- Personal Recollections (1900)
- Sir William White, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.: For Six Years Ambassador to Constantinople: His Life and Correspondence. London: John Murray. 1902. Retrieved 25 September 2018 – via Internet Archive.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kaul, Chandrika. "Edwards, Henry Sutherland". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32980. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Zicari, M. 'Music Journalism in London: The Late 1870s and 1880s', from Verdi in Victorian London (2016)
- ^ "Review of The Lyrical Drama by H. Sutherland Edwards". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 52 (1341): 54–55. 9 July 1881.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
External links[edit]
Media related to Henry Sutherland Edwards at Wikimedia Commons- Works by Henry Sutherland Edwards at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Henry Sutherland Edwards at Internet Archive
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