Writing
As well as providng the rowing coverage in Vanity Fair for most of the years there was any to speak of, Woodgate also had several books published:
- Oars and Sculls, and How to Use Them (1874)
- The O. V. H.; or, How Mr. Blake became an M. F. H. (1884)
- Boating (1888, for the Badminton Library set),
- Rowing and Sculling ... Illustrated (1889 for the All England Series)
- A Modern Layman's Faith (1893)
- Tandem (A novel) (1895)
- Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman (1909),
He contributed to The Field for half a century, frequently “produc the leading article in a curious but flexible English, which was quite unmistakable.” Woodgate’s writing attests to his clerical family background, classical Greek and Latin schooling, years of lawyering, and an unsuppressable urge to tell stories, laced with legalisms and couplets from Horace. He could, wrote T. A. Cook, who rowed for Oxford in 1889 with Vanity Fair’s Guy Nickalls, “write anything from a curate’s sermon to a leading article on the Torts of Landlords or a racy description of a prize fight and a sculling match.”
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