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A. G. Bagot
1849–1915
Best known for lively books about hunting and travel, this late-Victorian writer brought a playful eye to country life and sporting adventures. His work moves from English fox-hunting circles to journeys through India and Central America, giving modern readers a glimpse of a very particular world.
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Men We Meet in the Field; or, The Bullshire Hounds
by A. G. Bagot
About the author
Writing as A. G. Bagot and sometimes as "Bagatelle," Arthur Greville Bagot was a British author born in 1849 and died in 1915. The works linked to him include Sporting Sketches at Home and Abroad (1879), Men We Meet in the Field; or, The Bullshire Hounds (1881), and Sport and Travel in India and Central America (1897).
His books suggest a writer deeply interested in sport, travel, and the customs of late 19th-century society. Men We Meet in the Field is especially remembered for its humorous, observant portraits of hunting people and the social world around them, while Sport and Travel in India and Central America widens that view into travel writing.
Bagot is not a widely documented literary figure today, so many personal details are harder to confirm than the titles of his books. Even so, his writing still offers charm for readers interested in Victorian sporting life, period character sketches, and travel seen through the eyes of an experienced gentleman observer.