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Edgar Jepson

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating at times with John Gawsworth and possibly Arthur Machen, a long-term friend.

He was editor for a short period of Vanity Fair, where he employed Richard Middleton , and did much to preserve the latter's memory. He was also a translator, notably of the Arsène Lupin stories of Maurice Leblanc.

He was a member of the Square Club (from 1908) of established Edwardian authors, and also one of the more senior of the New Bohemians drinking club.

As a literary dynast: his son Selwyn Jepson 1899-1989 was known as a crime writer; his daughter Margaret (married name Birkinshaw) published novels as Margaret Jepson (including Via Panama) and as Pearl Bellairs ; and Margaret's daughter Franklin is the writer Fay Weldon. The Jepson domestic arrangements are commented on second-hand in Weldon's autobiographical writing.

Works

  • Sir Jones (as Jean F. Darrell Poges)
  • Sibyl Falcon (1895)
  • The Keepers of the People
  • On the Edge of Empire (1899) with David Beames
  • The Dictator’s Daughter (1902)
  • The Horned Shepherd (1904)
  • Lady Noggs, Peeress (1905) children’s stories
  • The admirable tinker : child of the world (1904)
  • The Four Philanthropists (1907)
  • Tangled Wedlock (1908)
  • The Mystery of the Myrtles (1909)
  • The Girls’ Head (1910)
  • House On The Mall (1911)
  • Pollyooly (1911) children's stories
  • Captain Sentimental and other stories (1911)
  • Lord Lisdor (1910)
  • No.19 (1910)
  • The Man with the Black Feather by Gaston Leroux (1912) translator
  • Terrible Twins (1913)
  • The second Pollyooly book. (1914) children's stories
  • The triumph of Tinker
  • Alice Devine (1916)
  • The Professional Prince (1917)
  • Ann Annington (1918)
  • Prince In Petrograd (1922)
  • Lady Noggs Assists (1924)
  • Buried Rubies (1926)
  • The Loudwater Mystery (1926)
  • Emerald Tiger (1928)
  • Cuirass Of Diamonds (1929)
  • The Moon Gods (1930)
  • Memories of a Victorian (1933) Autobiography
  • Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian (1937) Autobiography

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Last updated: 10-29-2005 02:13:46