G. S. Street

George Slythe Street MVO (18 July 1867 – 31 October 1936) was a British critic, journalist and novelist.

G. S. Street was born in Wimbledon, London on 18 July 1867 and educated at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford.

[1] His works were characterized by "whimsy, detachment, sympathy, tenderness, satire, humor, and occasionally cynicism".

Street's satirical works assailed "snobbery, hypocrisy, vulgarity, and pretentiousness at all levels of society, especially among the aesthetes and the upper class".

[1] In 1914 Street was appointed to the office of the Lord Chamberlain as joint Examiner of Plays with E.A.