Sala, George Augustus Henry
- Sala, George Augustus Henry
(1828-1895)
Journalist and novelist, b. in London of Italian ancestry, began life as an illustrator of books and scene-painter, afterwards taking to literature. He contributed to many periodicals, including Household Words, and the Illustrated London News, and was the founder and first ed. of Temple Bar. Among his novels were The Buddington Peerage and Quite Alone. He also wrote books of travel, and an autobiographical work, his Life and Adventures (1895).
Short biographical dictionary of English literature .
John W. Cousin.
2011.
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