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Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, 2nd Baronet (sh) and Huysmans, Joris-Karl (sh)


Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, 2nd Baronet (sh)




born Sept. 4, 1843, London, Eng.
died Jan. 26, 1911, London

British politician.

He was elected to Parliament in 1868, first as an extremist then as a moderate. In 1882 he became a member of William E. Gladstone's cabinet and was seen as a future prime minister. He was ruined at the height of his career when he was cited as a corespondent in a sensational Divorce suit in 1886. Dilke denied the woman's story, and the accumulated evidence showed that much of it was a fabrication. He returned to the House of Commons (1892-1911), where he promoted progressive labor legislation and gained a reputation as a military expert.


Huysmans, Joris-Karl (sh)




orig. Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans

born Feb. 5, 1848, Paris, France
died May 12, 1907, Paris

French Decadent writer.

His early works, influenced by contemporary naturalism, were followed by far more individual and violent works. The first was Down Stream (1882). His best-known novel, a rebours (1884; Against the Grain), relates experiments in decadence by the bored survivor of a noble line. The controversial and clearly autobiographical La-bas (1891; Down There) is a tale of 19th-century satanists. His final novels concern his return to Roman Catholicism. He also wrote perceptive Art criticism.


Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.

J.E. Bulloz