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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (5 February 1856, London-12 February 1947, Hove) was an English author and academic.

Life

Educated at Temple Grove School, East Sheen,^[1] Cheltenham College, and Trinity College, Oxford, in 1879 Sladen migrated to Australia, where he became the first professor of history in the new University of Sydney.^[2] Subsequently he traveled much and settled in London as a writer. Poems by Margaret Thomas were included in a work in the 1880s.

His work includes:

Frithjof and Ingebjorg (1882)
Poetry of Exiles (1883)
In Cornwall and Across the Sea (1885)
Edward the Black Prince (1886), an epic drama
The Spanish Armada (1888)
The Japs at Home (1892)
On the Cars and Off: Being the Journal of a Pilgrimage Along the Queen's Highway to the East, from Halifax in Nova Scotia to Victoria in Vancouver's Island: With Additional Matter on Klondike (1894)
A Japanese Marriage (1895)
A Sicilian Marriage (1905)
Queer Things About Sicily with Norma Lorimer (1905)
Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient (1906)
Egypt and the English (1908)
Queer Things About Egypt (1911)
The Unholy Estate (1912)
Twenty Years of my Life (1913)
Queer Things about Japan^[3] (1913)
The Real "Truth about Germany" (1914)
His German Wife (1915)
Fair Inez: A Romance of Australia (1918)
Paul's Wife: or "The Ostriches" (1919)
My Long Life (1939)

^ Current Opinion, vol. 6 (1891), p. 23
^ Addison, Henry Robert; Oakes, Charles Henry; Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1905). "Sladen, Douglas (Brooke Wheelton)". Who's Who. Vol. 57. p. 1483.
^ Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (2 November 1912). Queer things about Japan. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd; E. P. Duttton & co. – via Hathi Trust.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton" . New International Encyclopedia. Vol. XVIII (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 224.

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