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Percy Addleshaw
1866–1916
A lawyer by training and a writer by instinct, this late-Victorian author moved easily between poetry, short fiction, literary criticism, and travel writing. His work has the curious, wide-ranging feel of someone who read deeply, traveled well, and never quite stayed in one lane.
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About the author
Born in Bowdon, Cheshire, in 1866, Percy Addleshaw was an English barrister and writer. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1893, but he also built a literary life alongside his legal career.
Addleshaw wrote articles, poems, reviews, and prose, and he sometimes published under the pseudonym Percy Hemingway. Among the works associated with him are Out of Egypt, a collection of short stories, and The Happy Wanderer and Other Verse. He was also connected with the poet Roden Noel, whose work he edited.
He died in 1916. Although he is not widely known today, his career shows the rich overlap between law, letters, and travel writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.