- Edward Charles
Infobox Writer
name = Edward Charles Edmund Hemsted
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pseudonym = Edward Charles
birthdate = 1898
birthplace =Anacapri ,Capri ,Italy |
occupation =Author ,Educator
nationality = British
genre =Autobiography ,Socialist
notableworks = "The Sexual Impulse ", "Indian Patchwork "Edward Charles Edmund Hemsted (
1898 – ), better known by thepen name Edward Charles, was an Englishauthor ,educator ,social advocate , sexologist.His most famous writings are "
The Sexual Impulse ", "Mens Gods ", "Those Thoughtful People ", "Sand & the Blue Moss ", "Apple Pie Bed ", "Indian Patchwork " (with "Mary Charles", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), "Portrait of the Artist's Children ", and "Idle Hands ".Life
Edward Charles (E.C.E. Hemsted) was born in
Anacapri , Isola de Capri in 1898. He was educated atLancing College , St. Johns College,University of Oxford (where he took a double first) Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor of English in Japan (where he tutored the sons of the Emperor of Japan), then a Professor at the University of Peking. He sailed to Singapore on a tramp steamer, and tended bar at the "Long Bar" at theRaffles Hotel , before returning to Oxford. He later moved to India and served as Principal of a Moslem-Hindu school in central India from 1927-1928. He also taught in the US. In 1935 he was involved with in a major trial involving the publication of his work, "The Sexual Impulse ".He was a major proponent of
Sexology , and in particular the promotion ofcontraception .Works
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Those Thoughtful People " (1930)
*"Apple Pie Bed " (1931)
*"Mens Gods " (1931)
*"Sand & the Blue Moss " (1931)
*"Indian Patchwork "(1933)
*"Muscara " (1934)
*"Portrait of the Artist's Children " (1934)
*"The Sexual Impulse " (1935)
*"Idle Hands " (1936)References
* *Charles, Edward and Mary Charles. "
Indian patchwork " London : Heinemann, 1933.
* "Who was who among English and European authors, 1931-1949..." Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.External links
* [http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/charles/index.htm University of Tulsa McFarlin Library's inventory of the Edward Charles (E.C.E. Hemsted Correspondence housed in their special collections department] .
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