author
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
1856–1947
An energetic Victorian man of letters, he moved easily between poetry, fiction, travel writing, and literary journalism. His life stretched from Oxford and Sydney to London salons, giving his work a lively mix of scholarship, curiosity, and social observation.
2 Audiobooks
Twenty Years of My Life
by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile
by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
About the author
Born in London on February 5, 1856, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford. In 1879 he went to Australia, where he became the first professor of history at the University of Sydney, an early sign of the range that would mark his career.
Sladen wrote across many forms, including poems, novels, plays, travel books, and edited volumes. He is especially remembered as a prolific literary figure of the late Victorian and Edwardian world, with interests that reached from society life and biography to travel and the cultures of Egypt and the East.
Later based in England, he remained active in journalism and letters for decades, building connections with many notable writers and public figures of his time. He died in Hove on February 12, 1947, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both a historian’s appetite for detail and a traveler’s delight in the wider world.