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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