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Leonard Charles Smithers (19 December 1861 – 19 December 1907) was a London bookseller and publisher associated with the Decadent movement of the late 19th century.
Leonard Smithers (19 de dezembro de 1861 – 19 de dezembro de 1907) [1] foi um editor radicado em Londres e associado ao decadentismo. Nascido em Sheffield, ele trabalhou como procurador, habilitando-se em 1884, [2] e se tornou amigo so explorador e orientalista Sir Richard Francis Burton.
Há 2 dias · London publisher associated with the Decadent movement. Born in Sheffield, Smithers worked as a solicitor, qualifying in 1884. He became friendly with the explorer and orientalist Sir Richard Francis Burton and published Burton’s translation of the Book of One Thousand and One Nights in 1885.
Publisher to the Decadents chronicles the experiences of Leonard Smithers (1861–1907), a key figure in the literary culture of late Victorian England. In his day he was known primarily for publishing books of upscale pornography.
Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson. Prof. James G. Nelson. The years between 1895 and 1900 were Smithers' glory years during which he was the centre of a significant coterie of young avant garde writers and artists.
Leonard Charles Smithers (whom I have dubbed elsewhere 'Publisher to the Decadents*)1 is still little known to Wildeans around the world though he was one of Oscar Wilde's best and most serviceable friends during those last, sad years of the dramatist's life, that brief span of time between his release from prison in May 1897 and his death in No...
" The Ballad of Reading Gaol " (em português: " A Balada do Cárcere de Reading ") é um poema de Oscar Wilde, escrito em seu exílio ou em Berneval-le-Grand ou em Dieppe, ambas na França, após sair da prisão em Reading Gaol (pronuncia-se como "redding jail", em inglês) em 19 de maio de 1897.
