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thumb|Charles Edward Sayle from A. W. Pollard's obituary in 'The Library' of 1924 Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 – 4 July 1924) was an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian. He was the youngest son of Robert Sayle, a wealthy salesman, and Priscilla Caroline Sayle. He served as an under-librarian at Cambridge University Library.Bibliographical Society: The Library (periodical). Oxford University Press, 1925. His works include Bertha: a story of love (1885), Wicliff: an historical drama (1887), Erotidia (1889), Musa Consolatrix (1893), Private Music (1911) and Cambridge Fragments (1913).Colbeck, Norman ( 1987) A Bookman's Catalogue, M-End UBC Press; p. 728 He also edited an anthology of verse, In Praise of Music (1897) and compiled Annals of Cambridge University Library; 1278-1900 (1916). He edited the 3-volume Works of Sir Thomas Browne; volumes I & II were published in 1904 by Grant Richards in London; (See Thomas Browne.) volume III was published in 1907 by John Grant in Edinburgh.
thumb|Charles Edward Sayle from A. W. Pollard's obituary in 'The Library' of 1924 Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 – 4 July 1924) was an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian. He was the youngest son of Robert Sayle, a wealthy salesman, and Priscilla Caroline Sayle. He served as an under-librarian at Cambridge University Library.Bibliographical Society: The Library (periodical). Oxford University Press, 1925. His works include Bertha: a story of love (1885), Wicliff: an historical drama (1887), Erotidia (1889), Musa Consolatrix (1893), Private Music (1911) and Cambridge Fragments (1913).Colbeck, Norman ( 1987) A Bookman's Catalogue, M-End UBC Press; p. 728 He also edited an anthology of verse, In Praise of Music (1897) and compiled Annals of Cambridge University Library; 1278-1900 (1916). He edited the 3-volume Works of Sir Thomas Browne; volumes I & II were published in 1904 by Grant Richards in London; (See Thomas Browne.) volume III was published in 1907 by John Grant in Edinburgh.
Charles Sayle's salon, a circle of bright, handsome and predominantly homosexual young men who congregated at his house in Cambridge, included Rupert Brooke,Adrian Caesar, 'Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 George Mallory,Peter H. Hansen, 'Mallory, George Herbert Leigh (1886–1924)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 Augustus Bartholomew and Geoffrey Keynes.
Sayle's publisher was Bernard Quaritch, a bookseller who specialised in unpopular but praiseworthy scholastic publications.Arthur Freeman, 'Quaritch, Bernard Alexander Christian (1819–1899)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009
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