Michael Sadleir, born Michael Thomas Harvey Sadler, was a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer.
10 Facts About Michael Sadleir
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Michael Sadleir was born in Oxford, England, the son of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler and Mary Ann Harvey.
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Michael Sadleir adopted the older variant of his surname to differentiate himself from his father, a historian, educationist, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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Michael Sadleir then attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he read history and won the 1912 Stanhope essay prize on the political career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Together with Ian Fleming and others, Michael Sadleir was a director and contributor to The Book Handbook, later renamed The Book Collector, published by Queen Anne Press.
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Michael Sadleir conducted research on Gothic fiction and discovered rare original editions of the Northanger Horrid Novels mentioned in the novel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
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Michael Sadleir was President of the Bibliographical Society from 1944 to 1946.
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Michael Sadleir's best known novel was Fanny by Gaslight, a fictional exploration of prostitution in Victorian London.
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Michael Sadleir's writings include a biography of his father, published in 1949, and a privately published memoir of one of his sons, who was killed in World War II.
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Michael Sadleir sold Througham Court in 1949 and moved to Willow Farm, Oakley Green, in Berkshire.