Douglas Sladen
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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)
- 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)
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