Matthew Sturgis is a freelance writer and critic who has written art criticism for Harpers & Queen, travel pieces for the Sunday Telegraph and football reports for the Independent on Sunday. He is the author of Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, praised by David Profumo in the Literary Review as ‘deft and intriguing’ and by Waldemar Januszczak in the Sunday Times as ‘compelling and racy’, and the highly-praised Aubrey Beardsley. He is married to the gallery owner Rebecca Hossack, and lives in London.
Matthew Sturgis read history at Oxford, worked for four years in publishing, and since then has made his living by writing – art criticism for ‘Harpers & Queens’, travel pieces for the ‘Sunday Telegraph’, and book reviews for the ‘Independent’. His cartoons have been published in the ‘Oldie’ and the ‘Daily Mail’. His previous book, ‘Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s’, was published in 1995 by Macmillan.