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Biography
Matthew Sturgis is a British historian and biographer.
Early life
Sturgis earned a degree in history at the University of Oxford.
Career
Sturgis has written art criticism for Harpers & Queens, travel journalism for The Sunday Telegraph, book reviews for The Independent, and cartoons for the Oldie and the Daily Mail.
The Independent called his 1998 Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography "impressively researched".
Reviewing Oscar: A Life in The Guardian, Anthony Quinn wrote "he is a tremendous orchestrator of material, fastidious, unhurried, indefatigable." The Evening Standard, called it "sympathetic and insightful", and "much better" than the last major biography of Wilde, by Richard Ellman thirty years ago.
Personal life
He is married to the art dealer and gallerist Rebecca Hossack, and they live in a Georgian house in Fitzrovia, London.
Publications
- 1992 and All This, Macmillan, 1991
- Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, Macmillan, 1995
- Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography, 1998
- 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family with Mark McCrum, Macmillan, London, 1999. ISBNÂ 978-0-7522-1711-6
- Walter Sickert: A Life, 2005
- Oscar: A Life Head of Zeus, 2018