Edgar Jepson
| Alfred Jepson | |
|---|---|
 "National Magazine, 1915 | |
| Born |
Edgar Alfred Jepson 28 November 1863 Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, UK |
| Died |
12 April 1938 (aged 74) Hampstead, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Author |
| Spouse(s) | Frita Bisham Holmes 1899-1933 (divorce) |
Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863–1938) was an English author. He created primarily mainstream adventure and detective fiction. He also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories.
Early life
Edgar Jepson was born on 28 November 1863 at Kenilworth, Warwickshire. He was the second of five sons and three daughters raised by Alfred and Margaret Jepson. Jepson’s father, a dentist, originally hailed from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, while his mother was a native of London. Edgar Jepson attended Leamington College for Boys (today North Leamington School and later graduated from Balliol College, Oxford. After completing his education, Jepson spent some years living in Barbados, before taking up residence in the King's Bench Walk area of London where he began his literary career.[1][2]
Career
As an author, Jepson used a pseudonym, R. Edison Page, for some of his short stories. In other works he collaborated with such authors as John Gawsworth, Arthur Machen and Hugh Clevely.[3] Jepson 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 one of the more senior members of the New Bohemians drinking club.
Jepson edited Vanity Fair magazine for a short period, during which he employed Richard Middleton. After Middleton's death Jepson did much to preserve the latter's memory.
Two of Jepson's children became writers. His son Selwyn Jepson was a crime writer, and his daughter, Margaret (married name Birkinshaw), published novels as Margaret Jepson,[4] including Via Panama (1934). Margaret's younger daughter is the novelist Fay Weldon.
Edgar Jepson died on 11 April 1938 at his home in Hampstead. He was survived by his son and both daughters and his former wife Frita Bisham Holmes, daughter of violinist and composer Henry Holmes.[1]
Works
- Sir Jones (1885), as Jean F. Darrell Poges
- Sibyl Falcon (1895)
- The Keepers of the People (1898)
- 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 Triumph of Tinker (1906)
- The Four Philanthropists (1907)
- Tangled Wedlock (1908)
- Arsène Lupin (1909), based on play by Maurice Leblanc and Francis De Croisset
- The Mystery of the Myrtles (1909)
- The Girls’ Head (1910)
- Lord Lisdor (1910)
- No. 19 (1910), also known as The Garden at 19
- Pollyooly (1911), children's stories
- Captain Sentimental and Other Stories (1911)
- House on the Mall (1911)
- The Man with the Black Feather by Gaston Leroux (1912), translation
- Terrible Twins (1913)
- The Second Pollyooly Book (1914), children's stories
- Alice Devine (1916)
- The Professional Prince (1917)
- Ann Annington (1918)
- The Loudwater Mystery (1920)
- Prince in Petrograd (1922)
- The Whiskered Footman (1922)
- Dorothy, the Rope Dancer by Maurice Leblanc (1923), translation
- Lady Noggs Assists (1924)
- Buried Rubies (1926)
- Peter Intervenes (1926)
- Emerald Tiger (1928)
- Cuirass of Diamonds (1929)
- The Man with the Amber Eyes (1928), with Hugh Clevely
- The Murder in Romney Marsh (1929)
- The Moon Gods (1930)
- Gentle Binns (1931)
- Memories of a Victorian (1933), autobiography
- Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian (1937), autobiography
Sources
External links
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Wikisource has original works written by or about: Edgar Jepson |
- Works by Edgar Jepson at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edgar Jepson at Internet Archive
- Works by Edgar Jepson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Edgar Jepson’s Garden
- The Tea Leaf, Jepson's best-known short story
- Edgar Jepson at Library of Congress Authorities, with 33 catalogue records