Hector Hugh Munro

Standard Name: Munro, Hector Hugh
Used Form: Saki

Connections

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Friends, Associates Constance Smedley
In Birmingham CS had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan , through whom she also met Flora Klickmann . Edgar Pemberton brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham , and Mary Moore
Occupation May Sinclair
MS worked as secretary/treasurer of Dr Hector Munro 's Motor Field Ambulance Corps for the relief forces in Belgium; she was also to be a reporter of their activities.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
147-8, 154-5
Reception Elizabeth Bowen
Her short stories have been compared to writings by Katherine Mansfield , Henry James , D. H. Lawrence , and Saki .
Textual Production Ada Leverson
AL 's style and reputation are bound up with those of Oscar Wilde . Her biographer Charles Burkhart accepts that Wilde was the catalyst of her writing career, though he insists that she does not...

Timeline

1911: The satirist Saki (whose real name was Hector...

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1911

The satirist Saki (whose real name was Hector Hugh Munro ) published in New York his short-story collectionThe Chronicles of Clovis.

1912: The satirist Saki (whose real name was Hector...

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1912

The satirist Saki (whose real name was Hector Hugh Munro ) published his cynical, witty, aphoristic The Unbearable Bassington.

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