Edwin Pugh

Edwin William Pugh (1874 - February 5, 1930) was an English writer. He published 33 books, primarily novels and short story collections, and focused on working-class "cockney school" storylines. After positive reviews of his first two books, A Street in Suburbia (1895) (a collection of short stories, published when he was 21 years old)[1] and The Man of Straw (1896), he quit his job as a clerk to write full-time.[2] After a few years of good fortune, however, Pugh's working class output lost favor, and he struggled with poverty for the rest of his life.[3] He died in London on February 5, 1930.[4]

The Modernist Journals Project finds that "Pugh's fiction largely goes unread today, and those critics who have read him generally accuse him of sentimentality and melodrama."[2] He also wrote literary criticism praising the works of Charles Dickens.[5]

Bibliography

Works published by Pugh include:[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Advertising for A Street in Suburbia (1897)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Edwin William Pugh (1874-1930), Modernist Journals Project (Retrieved 8 August 2012)
  3. ↑ Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street, p. 235-37 (1985)
  4. ↑ (6 February 1930). Edwin Pugh, Novelist, Dies in London at 56: Author of Many Volumes Worked in a City Office Before He Took Up Writing, The New York Times
  5. ↑ Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, p. 514 (1989)
  6. ↑ The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. 4 (1900-1950), p. 718 (1972)

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