Henry Sutherland Edwards
{{Short description|British journalist}}
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Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828–1906) was a British journalist.
Biography
He was born in Hendon on 5 September 1828, and educated in London and France.{{Cite ODNB |id=32980 |title=Edwards, Henry Sutherland |first=Chandrika |last=Kaul}} He was correspondent of The Times at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia, in the camp of the insurgents at Warsaw (1862–63), and at German army headquarters during the Franco-Prussian War.
In 1865 he took over the role of chief music critic on The Morning Post from Howard Glover and he was a regular contributor to The Pall Mall Gazette.Zicari, M. '[https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d41d0q.6 Music Journalism in London: The Late 1870s and 1880s]', from Verdi in Victorian London (2016) He was the first editor of the weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic.
He died at his home in London on 21 January 1906, and was buried at St. John's Cemetery in Woking.
Selected publications
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009796581 The Russians at Home] (1861)
- The Polish Captivity: An Account of the Present Position of the Poles in the Kingdom of Poland, and in the Polish Provinces of Austria, Prussia, and Russia (1863)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100767147 The Life of Rossini] (1869)
- The Germans in France (1874)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009796582 The Russians at Home and the Russians Abroad] (1879, Vol. 1 is an abridgment of the 1861 book Russians at Home. Vol. 2 deals with political issues.)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006240656 The Lyrical Drama: Essays on Subjects, Composers, & Executants of Modern Opera (1881)]{{cite journal|title=Review of The Lyrical Drama by H. Sutherland Edwards|journal=Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art|date=9 July 1881|volume=52|issue=1341|pages=54–55|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858016626214;view=1up;seq=68}}
- The Case of Reuben Malachi (1886)
- The Prima Donna: Her History and Surroundings from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (two volumes, 1888)
- Rossini and His School (1895)
- Personal Recollections (1900)
- {{cite book |title= Sir William White, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.: For Six Years Ambassador to Constantinople: His Life and Correspondence |year= 1902 |place= London |publisher= John Murray |url=https://archive.org/stream/sirwilliamwhite00edwagoog#page/n11 |access-date=25 September 2018 |via= Internet Archive}}
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