The Magical Dilemma
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The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg Jean Overton Fuller / £12.99 / $26 |
'No
dry biography this but an illuminating and compelling account of
a multi-faceted personality who lived during an exciting period
of occult and literary history. An absolute must-have!'
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Jean Overton Fuller's humane biography of Aleister Crowley's disciple, lover, fellow magician, poet & seer; the literary godfather of Dylan Thomas.Really two books in one. Firstly a record of one man's extraordinary journey to magical enlightenment. Secondly the story of Aleister Crowley, the magus who summoned Neuburg to join him in the quest.'The
book opens with the author's entry into the group of young poets
including Dylan Thomas and Pamela Hansford Johnson. They gather
around Victor Newburg in 1935 when he is poetry editor of the Sunday
Referee. Gradually the author becomes aware of his strange
and sinister past, in which Neuburg was associated in magick with
Aleister Crowley.
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Sickert and The Ripper Crimesby Jean Overton Fuller
ISBN
1869928687
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Sickert and The Ripper Crimes Jean Overton Fuller / £12.99 / $26 |
'The original investigation into the 1888 Ripper murders and the artist Richard Walter Sickert.'
In the autumn of 1888, London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders-killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality.
Sickert & The Ripper Crimes derives from the unsuspected testimony of the woman who had particular reason to fear for her life.
Florence Pash, friend and colleague of the artist Walter Sickert and herself an artist, confided to the author's mother when in her late eighties, a terrible story that she had kept even from those closest to her.
'timely and welcome...remains a curious and important book'
- Paul Begg in Ripperologist, April 2002*Ripperologist, The Journal of Jack The Ripper, East End and Victorian Studies is available in electronic format, on subscription / Email contact@ripperologist.biz
Jean Overton Fuller Obituary
The author, biographer and Theosophist Jean Overton Fuller was born on 7th March 1915, of Captain John Henry Fuller and the artist Violet Overton Fuller. The posthumous child of her father, who was killed in East Africa in the winter of 1914, her mother brought the young Jean up, with an entourage of intellectuals and artists.Jean Overton Fuller is known in the field of Ripperology for her book Sickert and the Ripper Crimes. A study of the enormously talented Edwardian painter Walter Richard Sickert, in which, using her artist eye she scrutinises the paintings he produced for clues about the 1888 Ripper murders. Sickert found thrill and inspiration in the music halls, and the murky regions of the demi-monde and its inhabitants. The man was an enigma, his obsession with the Ripper murders, and the atmosphere of impending gory death, with the nudity, garishness, the strong scarlet hues, and the threatening shadows depicted so disturbingly in The Camden Town Murder series of his paintings, have raised questions and suspicion about the nature of Sickert’s fascination.
Jean, through her mother, was a contemporary link to these events, and with Sickert and the Ripper Crimes had generated a considerable amount of interest from the public as well from among her fellow writers, such as for instance the American best-selling author Patricia Cornwell and her contribution to the subject with her Portrait of A Killer: Jack The Ripper, Case Closed.
Paul Begg and Adam Wood of Ripperologist had invited Jean Overton Fuller to speak at the 2003 Ripper Conference in Liverpool. Mogg drove from Oxford to Wymington, a small locality in Northamptonshire to collect Jean en route to the Conference. This weekend in August was one of the hottest in the year. After the nightmare journey of the A5 to Liverpool with cars slowly moving head to tail, they were rewarded and arrived at the gigantic and labyrinthine Britannia Adelphi Hotel, a venue specially chosen for this Conference because of its Ripper connection. Jean greatly enjoyed this event and the very good and erudite company of the international fraternity of Ripperologists. The late Jeremy Beadle was the Master of Ceremony and introduced Jean to the audience, and she came alight on stage and spoke entertainingly for about half an hour without notes.
This was Jean’s penultimate public engagement. The last being Jean’s talk on C.W. Leadbeater, at the 2005 Theosophical History Conference in London.
Jean was hard of hearing which at times made her appear distant. She was a great English eccentric, humorous, kind, highly intelligent with a far ranging culture. She was extraordinary.
Her friends and those who met her will remember her with great warmth and affection. When you met Jean, even though the age gap, there was no sense of an age barrier. She was a rare soul.
Dear Jean rest in Peace and enjoy Devachan with your loved ones who departed before.
‘Om Mani Padme Om, the Sunrise comes!
The dewdrop slips into the shining sea!’
(From The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold)Jean Overton Fuller,
Author, Astrologer, Biographer, Theosophist, Ripperologist,
Born London, 7th March 1915,
Died Kettering, Wednesday 8th April 2009.
CATS AND OTHER IMMORTALS
BY JEAN OVERTON FULLER
Format: Large hardback / Full colours illustrations
ISBN 0-903394-98-7
Publisher: Fuller d'Arch Smith Ltd (1992)
Price: £10 / $20
Jean Overton Fuller is the author of more than a dozen no-fiction books of very different character from this, and is also an artist. She studied at the Academie Julien in Paris, and paintings she exhibited at the Chelsea Art Society and elsewhere include a number of those of the cats and other immortals who figure in this story.
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Cats and Other Immortals
Jean Overton Fuller / £10 / $20
DRIVEN TO IT
- AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYby JEAN OVERTON FULLER
OUT OF PRINT
Published 2007 by Michael Russell
ISBN 978-0-85955-306-3
Hardback / 376 pp /
Illustrated with previously unreleased photographs.'Driven to it' is the long awaited autobiography by one of England's rarest and most erudite writers. A must read for Jean Overton Fuller's fans. She is a natural writer. And a true original.
Blavatsky and Her Teachers
An Investigative Biography
By Jean Overton Fuller
1989 / East/West Publishing / Hardback
ISBN 0856921718
An elegantly written, well researched, profoundly insightful biography of the extraordinary Madame Blavatsky and a study of her works, by a respected Theosophical scholar.
Available through The Theosophical Society in England Bookshop
and Amazon UK
Krishnamurti and The Wind
An Integral Biography
By Jean Overton Fuller
2003 /TPH London / Hardback / Paperback
ISBN 0722950187
Another must read for all students of Theosophical History.
Available through The Theosophical Society in England Bookshop
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