Douglas Sladen

Educated at Temple Grove School, East Sheen,Current Opinion, vol. 6 (1891), p. 23 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.{{cite magazine|title=Sladen, Douglas (Brooke Wheelton)|magazine=Who's Who|year=1905|volume= 57|page=1483|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEVLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1483|last1=Addison|first1=Henry Robert|last2=Oakes|first2=Charles Henry|last3=Lawson|first3=William John|last4=Sladen|first4=Douglas Brooke Wheelton}} Subsequently he traveled much and settled in London as a writer. Poems by Margaret Thomas were included in a work in the 1880s.

A thorough biography was published in 1976{{Cite web |last=Cable |first=K.J. |date=1976 |title=Douglas Brooke Sladen (1856-1947) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sladen-douglas-brooke-4590 |url-status=live |website=Australian Dictionary of Biography}} although it omits his expressed enjoyment of editing anthologies of poetry. While in 1940, Sladen refers to himself as "an editor of anthologies" as he did in the foreword for his friend Ella Grainger (nee Strom).{{Cite book |last=Grainger |first=Ella |title=The Pavement Artist and Other Poems |publisher=Hutchinson & Co. |year=1940 |edition=Foreword by Douglas Sladen |location=London |pages=5-8}} When Ella Grainger, by then married to Percy Grainger, returned to England for a visit, Sladen was "rejoiced to find that she had brought with her a collection of poems ready for publication".

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{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006930517|title=Queer things about Japan|first=Douglas Brooke Wheelton|last=Sladen|date=November 2, 1912|publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd; E. P. Duttton & co.|via=Hathi Trust}} (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)

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• {{NIE|wstitle=Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton|volume=XVIII|page=224}}

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• [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060152b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
• [http://cnx.org/content/m12529/latest/ Researching Biography: Who is Douglas Sladen?]
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• Twenty Years of my Life (New York: EP Dutton & Company Publishers, 1913), [https://archive.org/stream/twentyyearsofmyl00sladuoft archive.org]

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