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'' magazine, 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 dynasty: his son Selwyn Jepson 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.

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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'' aka ''The Garden at 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)

★ ''The Loudwater Mystery'' (1920)

★ ''Prince In Petrograd'' (1922)

★ ''Lady Noggs Assists'' (1924)

★ ''Buried Rubies'' (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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★ Edgar Jepson’s Garden

★ The Tea Leaf, Jepson's best-known short story