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Wikipedia: George Augustus Henry Sala (24 November 1828 – 8 December 1895), English journalist, was born in London; his father (1792–1828) being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres, and his mother (1789–1860) an actress and teacher of singing. He was at school at Paris from 1839 to 1842, and learnt drawing in London, and in his earlier years he did odd-jobs in scene-painting and book illustration, the connexion of his mother and elder brother (Charles Kerrison Sala) with the theatre giving him useful introductions to authors and artists. At an early date he tried his hand at writing, and in 1851 attracted the attention of Charles Dickens, who published articles and stories by him in Household Words and subsequently in All the Year Round, and in 1856 sent him to Russia as a special correspondent.
![[Portrait of George Augustus Sala by Mathew Brady, ca. 1860]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/George_Augustus_Henry_Sala_1_s.jpg "Portrait of George Augustus Sala by Mathew Brady, ca. 1860")
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