Matthew Sturgis is the author of acclaimed biographies of Aubrey Beardsley and Walter Sickert, as well as Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s. He has contributed to the TLS, Harpers & Queen and the Independent on Sunday. Matthew is on the editorial board of The Wildean, the journal of the Oscar Wilde society.
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Bloomsbury presents Relative Failures, written and read by Matthew Sturgis. History remembers the greats – but what about those who lived alongside them? In the cultural ferment of late nineteenth-century London, three fascinating but often overlo... SEE MORE