GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY SALA BIOGRAPHY
GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY SALA BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
SALA, GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY (1828-1895). —Journalist and novelist, born in London of Italian ancestry, began life as an illustrator of books and scene-painter, afterwards taking to literature. He contributed to many periodicals, including Household Words , and the Illustrated London News , and was the founder and first ed. of Temple Bar . Among his novels were The Buddington Peerage and Quite Alone . He also wrote books of travel, and an autobiographical work, his Life and Adventures (1895).