Leonard Smithers, the Glossary
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.[1]
Table of Contents
29 relations: Aleister Crowley, Arthur Symons, Aubrey Beardsley, Bond Street, Catholic Church, Catullus, Chlorodyne, Decadent movement, Ernest Dowson, Erotika Biblion Society, Harry Sidney Nichols, John Collis Browne, John Sutherland (author), London, Lord Alfred Douglas, Matthew Sweet (writer), Max Beerbohm, Modernism/modernity, Nigel Tourneur, Oscar Wilde, Parsons Green, Petronius, Priapeia, Richard Francis Burton, Satyricon, Sheffield, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Savoy (periodical), Vincent O'Sullivan (American writer).
- Burials at Fulham Cemetery
- English pornographers
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, philosopher, political theorist, novelist, mountaineer, and painter.
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Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons (28 February 186522 January 1945) was a British poet, critic, translator and magazine editor.
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Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author.
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Bond Street
Bond Street in the West End of London links Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.
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Chlorodyne
Chlorodyne was one of the best known patent medicines sold in the British Isles.
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Decadent movement
The Decadent movement (from the French décadence) was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
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Ernest Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 186723 February 1900) was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer who is often associated with the Decadent movement.
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Erotika Biblion Society
The Erotika Biblion Society General Germany was a pornographic publishing imprint in Victorian London formed by Harry Sidney Nichols and Leonard Smithers in 1898. Leonard Smithers and Erotika Biblion Society are Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom.
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Harry Sidney Nichols
Harry Sidney Nichols (14 August 1865 – 30 November 1941) was an English publisher of erotica. Leonard Smithers and Harry Sidney Nichols are Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom.
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John Collis Browne
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John Andrew Sutherland (born 9 October 1938) is a British academic, newspaper columnist and author.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde.
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Matthew Sweet (writer)
Matthew Sweet is an English journalist, broadcaster, author, and cultural historian.
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Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max.
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Modernism/modernity
Modernism/modernity is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1994 by Lawrence Rainey and Robert von Hallberg.
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Nigel Tourneur
Nigel Tourneur was the pseudonym of a fin de siecle writer who is best known for his work Hidden Witchery, a collection of seven short stories and a short prose drama.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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Parsons Green
Parsons Green is a mainly residential district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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Petronius
Gaius Petronius Arbiter.
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Priapeia
The Priapeia (or Carmina Priapea) is a collection of eighty (in some editions ninety-five) anonymous short Latin poems in various meters on subjects pertaining to the phallic god Priapus.
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Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier.
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Satyricon
The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica, is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius.
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897.
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The Savoy (periodical)
The Savoy was a magazine of literature, art, and criticism published in eight numbers from January to December 1896 in London.
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Vincent O'Sullivan (American writer)
Vincent O'Sullivan (November 28, 1868 – July 18, 1940) was an American-born short story writer, poet and critic.
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See also
Burials at Fulham Cemetery
- Leonard Smithers
English pornographers
- Bernie Silver
- Clive McLean
- David Gold (businessman)
- Edward Avery
- Edward Sellon
- George Cannon (publisher)
- Harrison Marks
- Jack Kahane
- James Humphreys (pornographer)
- John Camden Hotten
- Leonard Smithers
- Paul Raymond (publisher)
- Richard Desmond
- Suze Randall
- Tim Stokely
- William Dugdale (publisher)
- William Lazenby
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Smithers
Also known as Smithers, Leonard.