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
Born
Michael Thomas Harvey Sadler (1888-12-25)25 December 1888 Oxford, England
Sadleir began to work for the publishing firm of Constable & Co. in 1912, becoming a director in 1920,[18] 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).[19]
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.
^Sadler, Michael (3 June 1958). "Probate Record". probatesearch.service.gov.uk. p. 4. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
^ ab"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.
^Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/71922. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71922. Retrieved 18 February 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^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 & Co. OCLC 1358737.
^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.
^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.
^ ab"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 linksedit
Online text of a brief autobiography, Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac
Library collectionsedit
"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.