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Sala, George Augustus

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | © The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Sala, George Augustus (1828–95), journalist and illustrator, became a regular contributor to Household Words (1851–6); he was sent by Dickens to Russia as correspondent at the end of the Crimean war and subsequently wrote for the Daily Telegraph. He published books of travel and novels.

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