Charles Edward Sayle

Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 – 4 July 1924) was an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian.

He also made a catalogue of early printed books in the McClean Bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum; and edited the works of Thomas Browne.

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).

[5] Charles Sayle's salon, a circle of bright, handsome and predominantly homosexual young men who congregated at his house on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, included Rupert Brooke,[6] George Mallory,[7] Augustus Bartholomew, Jacques Raverat and Geoffrey Keynes.

[8] Sayle's publisher was Bernard Quaritch, a bookseller who specialised in unpopular but praiseworthy scholastic publications.