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Arthur Machen
Arthur Llewellyn Jones, known by his pen name Arthur Machen, was a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror; Stephen King described it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." He is also known for…
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culture · Welsh author and mystic (1863–1947) · translator · novelist · writer · literary critic · journalist · stage actor · politician · also Arthur Machen, Machen
Born 3 March 1863 · Died 15 December 1947 · Q540166
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2020· 1 entry
Die Tageszeitung: Vergessener Horrorautor Arthur Machen: Schrecken vor ruhiger Landschaft
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2010· 1 entry
To mark the 150 years since Machen's birth, two volumes of Machen's work were republished in the prestigious Library of Wales series
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2005· 1 entry
Thanks to the Friends of Arthur Machen
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1998· 1 entry
Dedicated to supporting interest in Machen and his work, and to aid research
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1986· 1 entry
Which in turn was replaced by the current literary society, The Friends of Arthur Machen
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1948· 1 entry
In the United States and survived until the 1960s
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1947· 1 entry
Died 1947-12-15.
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1937· 1 entry
“Mr. Arthur Machen presents his compliments and begs to inform that he is, and always has been, entirely for General Franco.”
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1932· 1 entry
But the loss of work from Benn's a year later made things difficult once more
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1929· 1 entry
Machen and his family moved away from London to Amersham in Buckinghamshire, but they still faced financial hardship
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1927· 1 entry
Became a manuscript reader for the publisher Ernest Benn, which brought in a much-needed regular income until 1933
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1924· 1 entry
Issued a collection of bad reviews of his own work, with very little commentary, under the title Precious Balms
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1923· 1 entry
Of a collected edition of his works (the "Caerleon Edition") and a bibliography
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1921· 1 entry
Came as a relief in one sense, though it caused financial problems
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1919· 1 entry
To a bigger house with a garden, in St John's Wood, which became a noted location for literary gatherings attended by friends such as the painter Augustus John, D
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1914· 1 entry
Saw Machen return to public prominence for the first time in twenty years due to the publication of "The Bowmen" and the subsequent publicity surrounding the "Angels of Mons" episode
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1907· 1 entry
The Hill of Dreams, generally considered Machen's masterpiece, was finally published, though it was not recognised much at the time
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1906· 1 entry
Machen's literary career began once more to flourish as the book The House of Souls collected his most notable works of the nineties and brought them to a new audience
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1903· 1 entry
To a second marriage, to Dorothie Purefoy Hudleston, which brought Machen much happiness
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1902· 1 entry
For his earlier written work Hieroglyphics, an analysis of the nature of literature, which concluded that true literature must convey "ecstasy"
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1901· 1 entry
And a member of Frank Benson's company of travelling players, a profession which took him round the country
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1899· 1 entry
Machen's wife, Amy, died of cancer after a long period of illness
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1894· 1 entry
By John Lane in the noted Keynotes Series, which was part of the growing aesthetic movement of the time
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1887· 1 entry
The year his father died, Machen married Amelia (Amy) Hogg, an unconventional music teacher with a passion for the theatre, who had literary friends in London's bohemian circles
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1884· 1 entry
Published his second work, the pastiche The Anatomy of Tobacco, and secured work with the publisher and bookseller George Redway as a cataloguer and magazine editor
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1881· 1 entry
Published a long poem on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries
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1864· 1 entry
When Machen was two, his father, John Edward Jones, became rector of the parish of Llanddewi Fach with Llandegveth, about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-03-03.
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