| 词条 | Sam Hield Hamer |
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Sam Hield Hamer (27 July 1869 – 6 February 1941) was an English writer and editor, mostly for children, but was also well-regarded as a travel writer. Born in Islington,[1] a son of John Hamer, a Justice of the Peace, the young Sam was educated at the City of London School. In 1886, at the time of the real general election in July, the school conducted a mock election, and the boys voted for a Liberal government to be led by Hamer.[2] He left school that year to take up a position with the publishers Cassell and Company, where he rose to join the editorial staff and stayed with the firm until 1907, serving as editor of Little Folks from 1895 to 1907. He was a member of the National Liberal Club.{{cn|date=March 2019}} He also wrote under the name of Sam Browne.[3] Between 1897 and 1906 Hamer had a productive collaboration with the illustrator Harry B. Neilson.[4] Hamer's book The Dolomites (1910), also known as Wayfaring in the Dolomites, is about the mountain-climbing adventures of a family called Innerkofler.[5] In 1913, a reviewer of his The Bran Pie commented that Hamer "probably understands the taste of children in literature as well as anyone now living."[6] He corresponded with Beatrix Potter in the 1920s.[7] Hamer, then of 69 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, Middlesex, died at the neighbouring number 55 Dartmouth Park Hill on 6 February 1941, leaving effects valued at £109. Probate was to Frances Mary Hamer, spinster.[8] Selected publications
Notes1. ^"HAMER, Sam Hield", in Register of Births for Islington Registration District, vol. 1b, p. 356 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamer, Sam Hield}}2. ^The City of London school magazine (1886), p. 29: "The elections resulted in a Liberal victory, and the Cabinet was constituted as follows : — Premier : Mr. S. H. Hamer. Home Secretary : Mr. F. N. Keen. Secretary for India : Mr. W. C. Arnold. Secretary for the Colonies : Mr. P. J. Pond." 3. ^"HAMER, Sam Hield [1869-1941]", in T. J. Carty, ed., A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language (Routledge, 2015), p. 1474 4. ^They worked together on Micky Magee's Menagerie (1897), Whys and Other Whys, (1898), Topsy-Turvy Tales (1901), The Jungle School (1900), Peter Piper's Feepshow (1900), The Ten Travellers, and other tales in prose and verse (1902), and Topsy Turvy Tales (1906) 5. ^Arthur Lennig, Stroheim (2003), p. 110 6. ^1 The Bookman, vol. 43 (1913), p. 201: "THE BRAN PIE, Edited by S. H. Hamer... Mr. S. H. Hamer probably understands the taste of children in literature as well as anyone now living." 7. ^Andrew Norman, Beatrix Potter: Her Inner World (2014), p. 156 8. ^"HAMER Sam Hield" in Probate Index for 1941. 5 : 1869 births|1941 deaths|20th-century English writers|English children's writers|People educated at the City of London School |
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