Howard O. Sturgis

Howard Overing Sturgis ( 30 January 1855 in London - 7. February 1920 in Windsor , Berkshire ) was an American writer .

life and work

Sturgis was born in London in 1855 as the youngest son of Russell Sturgis (1805-1887), a wealthy merchant from Boston , Massachusetts . One of his half-brothers was the writer Julian Sturgis (1848–1904). As a guest of the family, he met Henry Adams , William Makepeace Thackeray and Henry James as a child , the latter becoming a personal friend and mentor for him. Sturgis grew up affluent in England and attended Eton and Cambridge ; after the death of his parents he bought a property near Eton and received there, together with his partner William Haynes-Smith, often a large circle of friends, among them Henry James, Edith Wharton and George Santayana .

Sturgis wrote three novels, two of which are homosexual . The first novel Tim: A Story of School Life was published anonymously in 1891 (German 1895; NA 2009 under the title Tim ) and is based on his unfortunate experiences in Eton, the third, Belchamber from 1904, is considered his masterpiece, but was in contrast no sales success for the first two novels and was not appreciated by Wharton or by his friends; it was therefore Sturgis' last major work. Only one short story was published during his lifetime.

A next generation gay contemporary, EM Forster (1879–1970), wrote a sketch about Sturgis; on the other hand, Sturgis' Tim can be seen as the forerunner of Maurice von Forster, which was written as early as 1913/14 (22 years after Tim's appearance ), but was only published posthumously in 1971.

bibliography

• Tim: A Story of School Life. Novel. Macmillan and Co, London / New York 1891. (Reprint: Mondial, New York, ISBN 978-1-59569-130-9 )
  • German: Tim. Novel. over v. Natalie Rümelin and follow up from Wolfram Setz . Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-939542-48-3 .
• All that was possible. Epistle novel. McIlvaine, London 1895. (Reprint: Mondial, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-59569-129-3 )
• Belchamber. Novel. London 1904. (Reprint: New York Review Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-59017-266-7 )
• On the Pottlecombe Cornice. Short story. 1908.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Howard Sturgis on The New York Revue of Books (accessed January 24, 2009)
2. ↑ Howard Overing Sturgis on glbtq.com ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed January 24, 2009)  
3. ↑ Elmer Borklund on jstor.org (accessed January 24, 2009)
4. ^ Howard O. Sturgis: Tim. Männerschwarm Verlag , archived from the original on October 2, 2009 ; Retrieved on September 28, 2017 (publisher's website for the work Tim with the author's profile). 

Web links

• Literature by and about Howard O. Sturgis in the catalog of the German National Library