Robert Harborough Sherard
17 books
Biography
Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer, of Oscar Wilde, as well as being Wilde's most prolific biographer in the first half of the twentieth century.
Robert Harborough Sherard was born Robert Harborough Sherard Kennedy on 3 December 1861 at Putney, England, the son of Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy (illegitimate son of the 6th Earl of Harborough and actress Emma Love) and Jane Stanley Wordsworth, the granddaughter of William Wordsworth. He dropped the surname Kennedy upon moving to Paris in late 1882 after a quarrel with his father who cut him off from the expected family inheritance.
After public school at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, he attended Oxford University and the University of Bonn.
He was married in turn to Marthe Lipska in 1887 daughter of the Baron de Stern, Irene Osgood in 1908, and Alice Muriel Fiddian in 1928.
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Robert Harborough Sherard was born Robert Harborough Sherard Kennedy on 3 December 1861 at Putney, England, the son of Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy (illegitimate son of the 6th Earl of Harborough and actress Emma Love) and Jane Stanley Wordsworth, the granddaughter of William Wordsworth. He dropped the surname Kennedy upon moving to Paris in late 1882 after a quarrel with his father who cut him off from the expected family inheritance.
After public school at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, he attended Oxford University and the University of Bonn.
He was married in turn to Marthe Lipska in 1887 daughter of the Baron de Stern, Irene Osgood in 1908, and Alice Muriel Fiddian in 1928.
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Books by Robert Harborough Sherard
After the Fault
After the Fault
Alphonse Daudet; Biographical
Alphonse Daudet; Biographical and Critical Study
Memoirs to Serve for the Histo
Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I; from 1802 to 1815; Volume 1
Modern Paris; Some Sidelights
Modern Paris; Some Sidelights on Its Inner Life
Real Oscar Wilde, to Be Used A
Real Oscar Wilde, to Be Used As a Supplement to, and in Illustration of the Life of Oscar Wilde . with Numerous Unpublished Letters, Facsims. , Ports and Illus
Bartered Honour
Bartered Honour
The Real Oscar Wilde. With Numerous Unpublished Letters, Facsims, Ports. and Illus
Child-Slaves of Britain
Child-Slaves of Britain
Memoirs Illustrating the Histo
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815; Volume 1
The Life of Oscar Wilde; With a Full Reprint of the Famous Revolutionary Article, "Jacta Alea est," Which was Written by Jane Francesca Elgee, who ... Chapter Conributed by one of the Prisonwarder
White Slaves of England, Being
White Slaves of England, Being True Pictures of Certain Social Conditions in the Kingdom of England in the Year 1897;
Alphonse Daudet - a Biographic
Alphonse Daudet - a Biographical and Critical Study
Twenty Years in Paris: Being Some Recollections of a Literary Life
Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship : with ..
Emile Zola: A Biographical and Critical Study
Life of Oscar Wilde
Life of Oscar Wilde
Life of Oscar Wilde; with a Fu
Life of Oscar Wilde; with a Full Reprint of the Famous Revolutionary Article, Jacta Alea Est, Which Was Written by Jane Francesca Elgee, Who Afterwards Became the Mother of Oscar Wilde, and an Additional Chapter Conributed by One of the Prisonwarder