Born: 25 December 1888, Oxford, England
Died: 13 December 1957, London, England
Nationality: British
Biography
Michael Sadleir was a British novelist, publisher, bibliographer, and book collector. He is known for Fanny by Gaslight and for his work on nineteenth-century fiction and publishing history.
Michael Sadleir
Fanny By Gaslight
1956. Hutchinson, 1975.
I walked up to York Gate, cut across the park, and was at Florizel Thirteen by noon
Fanny is a secretary at a fashionable brothel in Park Village West in the 1870's, and traverses the park daily to and from work. She has assignations at 'Avenue Bridge' (Gloucester Gate Bridge?), and in a Private Bar in Park Street (now Parkway), but the only description is 'it was early April and the park smelt of spring'. The Park Village area is also described.