Sydney Brooks

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Sidney Brooks (1872–1937) was a British writer and critic.[1] He was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Review and was in England writing reviews from late 1895 to January 1896, when he left to visit Chicago.[2] In America, his critical reviews and writings were sold to publications such as Harper's Magazine.[3]

Brooks was a notable passenger who was aboard the SS Tuscania,[4] a luxury ocean liner of the Cunard subsidiary Anchor Line, when it was torpedoed in 1918 by the German U-boat UB-77 while carrying American troops to Europe and sank with a loss of 210 lives.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sydney Brooks at Wikisource
    - A Diplomat (1899). "A Vindication of the Boers. A Rejoinder to Mr. Sydney Brooks". The North American Review. 169 (514): 362–374. JSTOR 25104874.
  2. ^ Sydney Brooks (January 11, 1896). "unsigned review". Saturday Review. lxxxi: 44–5.
  3. ^ Brooks, Sydney, Harper's Magazine Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Britain's Heart Now of Granite". The New York Times. January 19, 1916. p. 2.
  5. ^ Massie, Robert K. (2004). Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-40878-0.