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Even if we hold that a man’s work should be judged purely on its own merits there can be little doubt that the merely human qualities of either artist or craftsman are of considerable importance to those with whom his work brings him into contact.
Edith A. Browne (b. 1874) wrote a surprising number of books about world industries such as cocoa and vegetable oils; recipe ingredients; and foreign lands such as Spain, Panama, Greece and the various republics of South America. Her book W. S. Gilbert benefited greatly from Gilbert’s willingness to respond to her enquiries, to allow her to quote extensively from his writings, to supply ‘all the biographical facts’ which she recorded, to help with the illustrations, and to read the proofs in order to ensure accuracy.
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Notes
Carl Hentschel (1864–1930) had created a stir with his symposium, A Few Questions and their Replies: Are Dramatic Critics of Any Use? (1902), held at the O.P. Club.
Sidney Dark (b. 1874) specialised in fiction (short stories and books for children), popular history, and stories about leaders of the Church of England and other colourful personalities. His study The Outline of H. G. Wells: The Superman in the Street (1922) was a widely-read interpretation of Wells’s philosophy.
Dark was the co-author, with Rowland Grey, of W. S. Gilbert: His Life and Letters, published in 1923;
despite its inaccuracies, it serves as a useful supplement to Hesketh Pearson’s biography, Gilbert: His Life and Strife (1957).
The best one-volume introduction to Gilbert is W. S. Gilbert, by Max Keith Sutton (Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1975).
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Browne, E.A. (1994). W. S. Gilbert. In: Orel, H. (eds) Gilbert and Sullivan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13769-5_35
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