author
T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
1844–1924
A sharp-eyed Victorian journalist and editor, he wrote about politics, society, and public life with the insider's feel of someone who had spent years close to the press and Parliament. His books mix reportage, commentary, and character sketches of the world around him.
2 Audiobooks
Anthony Trollope; His Work, Associates and Literary Originals
by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country
by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
About the author
Born in Taunton in 1844 and later dying in Hove in 1924, Thomas Hay Sweet Escott was an English journalist, editor, and author. He is especially associated with The Fortnightly Review, which he edited in the 1880s, and with a long career writing about British political and literary life.
Escott contributed to a wide range of newspapers and periodicals, and his nonfiction often focused on the people, institutions, and social habits of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He wrote as someone deeply involved in the public conversations of his time, which gives his work the tone of both witness and commentator.
He also wrote fiction, including A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Today he is remembered less as a novelist than as a lively observer of his age: a prolific man of letters whose journalism and books captured the personalities and pressures of late 19th-century Britain.