Portrait of George Augustus Sala by Mathew Brady, ca. 1860

George Augustus Henry Sala (24 November 1828 – 8 December 1895), English journalist, was born in London; his father (1792–1828) being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres, and his mother (1789–1860) an actress and teacher of singing. Download high resolution version (400x940, 133 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (400x940, 133 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Mathew B. Brady (ca. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my [birth]right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with reporter. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation) and Defining London (below). ...

He was at school at Paris from 1839 to 1842, and learnt drawing in London, and in his earlier years he did odd-jobs in scene-painting and book illustration, the connexion of his mother and elder brother (Charles Kerrison Sala) with the theatre giving him useful introductions to authors and artists. At an early date he tried his hand at writing, and in 1851 attracted the attention of Charles Dickens, who published articles and stories by him in Household Words and subsequently in All the Year Round, and in 1856 sent him to Russia as a special correspondent. About the same time he got to know Edmund Yates, with whom, in his earlier years, he was constantly connected in his journalistic ventures. In 1860, over his own initials "G.A.S.," he began writing "Echoes of the Week" for the Illustrated London News, and continued to do so till 1886, when they were continued in a syndicate of weekly newspapers almost to his death. William Makepeace Thackeray, when editor of the Cornhill, published articles by him on Hogarth in 1860, which were issued in column form in 1866; and in the former year he was given the editorship of Temple Bar, which he held till 1866. , The Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in Paris, is an international symbol of the city. ... Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... Edmund Hodgson Yates (July 3, 1831 - May 20, 1894) was a novelist and dramatist, born at Edinburgh, held for some years an appointment in the General Post Office. ... The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch magazine. ... William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. ... The Cornhill Magazine was a Victorian magazine and literary journal named after Cornhill a street in London. ... William Hogarth William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 - October 26, 1764) was a major British painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. ...

1881 Caricature from Punch

Meanwhile he had become in 1857 a contributor to the Daily Telegraph, and it was in this capacity that he did his most characteristic work, whether as a foreign correspondent in all parts of the world, or as a writer of "leaders" or special articles. His literary style, highly coloured, bombastic, egotistic, and full of turgid periphrases, gradually became associated by the public with their conception of the Daily Telegraph; and though the butt of the more scholarly literary world, his articles were invariably full of interesting matter and helped to make the reputation of the paper. He collected a large library and had an elaborate system of keeping common-place books, so that he could be turned on to write upon any conceivable subject with the certainty that he would bring into his article enough show or reality of special information to make it excellent reading for a not very critical public; and his extraordinary faculty for never saying the same thing twice in the same way had a sort of "sporting" interest even to those who were more particular. Download high resolution version (540x894, 70 KB)1881 Caricature of George Augustus Sala. ... Download high resolution version (540x894, 70 KB)1881 Caricature of George Augustus Sala. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...

He earned a large income from the Telegraph and other sources, but he never could keep his money. In 1892, when his popular reputation was at its height, he started a weekly paper called Sala's Journal, but it was a disastrous failure; and in 1895 he had to sell his library of 13,000 volumes. Lord Rosebery gave him a civil list pension of £100 a year, but he was a broken-down man, and he died at Brighton on 8th December 1895. Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (May 7, 1847 - May 21, 1929) was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister. ... A civil list is a list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government. ... Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. ...

Sala published many volumnes of fiction, travels and essays, and he edited various other works, but his métier was that of ephemeral journalism; and his name goes down to posterity as perhaps the most popular and most voluble of the newspaper men of the period.

Works by George Augustus Sala

America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific (1882)

Text above has been taken from the 1902 Britannica. It may need updates or revisions.