Books and Writers

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JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD
Historical Novelist & Historian

JAMES, HENRY
Novelist. Settled in Europe from 1869 and was a naturalised Briton from 1915. Never married. Lived in Rye, Sussex from 1896

JAZZ BOOK CLUB
10-13 Bedford Street, London WC2 (1963)

JEFFERIES, JOHN RICHARD
Naturalist of poetic perceptions. Novelist. Married Jessie Baden in 1874. Championed the cause of the depressed agricultural labourer. Died after a long and painful illness

JOHNS, CAPT W E (WILLIAM EARL)
Writer of stories for boys and girls. Painter of aviation pictures. Joined Territorial Army and fought during WW1, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps 1917. Shot down and imprisoned (although some say he in fact crashed his plane as he was a useless flyer) he stayed in the RAF until 1927, leaving as a Flying Officer. Separated from his wife in 1921, met Doris Leigh in 1924, and lived with her for the rest of his life

JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Lexicographer and man of letters. His father owned a bookshop in Lichfield. Focus of London literary life of his day. Married Elizabeth Porter in 1735. Buried in Westminster Abbey

JONES, DAVID
Poet and artist. became a Catholic 1921. Went to live with Eric Gill at Ditchling. Illustrated for the St Dominic's Press 1923-4. Engaged to Gill's daughter, Petra, they never married and he remained single after she married Denis Tegetmeier

JOYCE, JAMES (AUGUSTINE ALOYSIUS)
Novelist and playwright. Lived in Paris from 1921. Married Nora Barnacle (1884-1951) in 1931