Joseph Ashby-Sterry
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File:Joseph Ashby-Sterry.jpegJoseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838 – 1 June 1917)Oxford Index [http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U192891 Retrieved 24 June 2018.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624151406/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U192891 |date=24 June 2018 }} was an English poet, novelist and journalist born in London. He contributed to Punch.
Life
Ashby-Sterry was born in London, as the only son of Henry Sterry of Sydenham Hill. His works include Boudoir Ballads, a collection of poetry. He did not marry. He died on 1 June 1917, leaving £12,039.{{dead link|date=July 2020}}{{Cite news |title=Journalist leaves £12,039 |work=Daily Mirror |date=3 August 1917 |accessdate=21 August 2016 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19170803/125/0011| via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}
Journalism
Ashby-Sterry was a contributor to the British magazine Punch. He also wrote the "Bystander" column in a British weekly paper, The Graphic, for 18 years.Morouzi (2016), p. 72.
Select bibliography
- Katharine and Petruchio, or, The Shaming of the True. London, S. Rivers, 1870
- [https://archive.org/details/shuttlecockpaper00ashbuoft/page/n5/mode/2up The Shuttlecock Papers. A book for an idle hour]. London, Tinsley Bros., 1873
- [https://archive.org/details/cu31924013207869 Tiny Travels]. London, Tinsley, 1874
- [https://archive.org/details/cu31924013207836/page/n7/mode/2up Boudoir Ballads]. London, Chatto and Windus, 1876
- The Wooden Midshipman. London, 1881
- A Snailway Guide to Tunbridge Wells. Tunbridge Wells, R. Clements, 1884
- [https://archive.org/details/lazyminstrel00ashbgoog/page/n14/mode/2up The Lazy Minstrel]. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1886
- [https://archive.org/details/cucumberchronic01ashbgoog/page/n8/mode/2up Cucumber Chronicles; a book to be taken in slices]. London, Sampson Low & Co., 1887
- Charles Dickens in Southwark. London, 1888
- Nutshell Novels. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1891
- [https://archive.org/details/naughtygirlstory00ashbrich A Naughty Girl; a story of 1893]. London, Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1893
- [https://archive.org/details/atalethames00hathgoog/page/n10/mode/2up A Tale of the Thames, etc.] London, Bliss Sands, 1896
- [https://archive.org/details/bystanderorleav00ashbgoog/page/n6/mode/2up The Bystander; or Leaves for the Lazy]. London, Sands & Co., 1901
- [https://archive.org/details/riverrhymer00ashbiala/page/n5/mode/2up The River Rhymer]. London, W.J. Ham-Smith, 1913
References
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Sources
- Moruzi, Kristina (2016). [https://books.google.com/books?id=20Q3DAAAQBAJ&q=sterry&pg=PA72 Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915]. Accessed 15 July 2020. London: Routledge, {{ISBN|9781317161509}}
External links
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- [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw09298/Joseph-Ashby-Sterry?LinkID=mp06357&role=sit&rNo=0 Pen and ink portrait] by Harry Furniss, at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Category:19th-century English novelists
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Category:English male novelists
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