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Sadleir's best-known novel was Fanny by Gaslight (1940), a fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London. It was adapted under that name as a 1944 film. The 1947 novel Forlorn Sunset further explored the characters of the Victorian London underworld.
On the campus of the University of California, Los Ange-les, where one of the nuclei of his great library is deposited, Sadleir will be forever commemorated as a scholar-collector-connoisseur of the nineteenth-century novelÑthe greatest such collector there has ever been and, as a by-product, the critic who raised this literary object to academi...
AN EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FICTION WITH OVER 3700 ENTRIES. Sadleir is also known for his full-length study on Anthony Trollope, whose work is featured quite prominently in this text.
Apr 17, 2024 · The Sadleir Collection is generally regarded to be the world’s finest collection of 19th-century British fiction, assembled by the scholar, collector, connoisseur and bibliomaniac Michael Sadleir (1888-1957).
- Caroline Cubé
- 2014
Quick Reference. (1888–1957), bibliographer and novelist. His works include Excursions in Victorian Bibliography (1922) and Nineteenth Century Fiction (2 vols, 1951). His best‐known novel, Fanny by Gaslight (1940), has been made into a film.
In 1926, when Sadleir was preparing a paper on the Northanger Novels, Hutchinson provided him with two more of the novels on Isabella's list: Eliza Parson's Castle of Wolfenbach (London: Minerva, 1793) and The Necromancer; or, The tale of the Black Forest.
Sadleir's best known novel was Fanny by Gaslight (1940), a fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London. It was adapted under that name as a 1944 film. The 1947 novel Forlorn Sunset further explored the characters of the Victorian London underworld.
