Jean Overton Fuller

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Jean Overton Fuller (born March 7, 1915 in England , † April 8, 2009 in Kettering (Northamptonshire) ) was a British author, best known for books on the French Resistance and various biographies.

Live and act

Fuller was the daughter of an Indian army officer and was born in England. Her father was killed in World War I before she was born and she was raised by her mother, an artist, and her grandfather, a retired military doctor. After a short period of trying herself as an actress, she studied linguistics, English literature and astronomy at the University of London .

During the Second World War she worked as a censor at the British Post Office. She became known early on through her book ("Madeleine") about Noor Inayat Khan (Noor-un-Nisa, 1914–1944). The book became a bestseller. Fuller was acquainted with Khan's family and was friends with Noor Inayat Khan himself (who was a daughter of Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan ) before the war (they were neighbors) and undertook for the book after learning of her death in 1949 Research in many European countries, including Khan's former opponent in Germany. The research resulted in another book about the espionage networks of the Resistance in France and especially the double agent Henri Déricourt "Double Webs" and about the British agent John Renshaw Starr. In 1975 a book about the German infiltration of British intelligence SOE - Special Forces in France during the Second World War .

Fuller also wrote other biographies, for each of which she undertook intensive research. Among other things, she wrote biographies of Algernon Swinburne , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Francis Bacon (in which she suggests he was the son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and Queen Elizabeth and also the old view in the William Shakespeare Authorship debate attached, Bacon was the author of Shakespeare's works) and a book that argues that Jack the Ripper was the German painter Walter Sickert . She also wrote biographies of personalities with an occult background, such as Madame Blavatsky (and her teachers she met in Nepal), Victor Neuburg (poet and friend of Aleister Crowley ), the spiritual teacher and theosophist Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Count of Saint Germain . Fuller was herself a theosophist , from 1940 a member of the Theosophical Society and former Vice President of the Astrological Lodge of London as well as a regular author of the journal "Theosophical History". In 2007 she wrote her autobiography "Driven to It". She also painted and published a book with pictures of cats she had painted ("Cats and other Immortals") and also published volumes of poetry (one about a German SS officer she met while doing research, "Conversations with a Captor") .

Fonts

  • Madeleine, Victor Gollancz 1952, paperback edition by Pan as "Born for Sacrifice", extended edition as "Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan - Madeleine" by East West Publications, Rotterdam 1988 (biography of Noor Inayat Khan)
  • The Starr Affair, Victor Gollancz 1954 (via John Renshaw Starr)
  • Double Web, Putnam, 1958
  • Double Agent ?, Pan Books Ltd, 1961.
  • The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg, WH Allen, 1965, reprinted by Mandrake of Oxford.
  • Shelley, A Biography, Jonathan Cape, 1968.
  • Swinburne, A Critical Biography, Chatto & Windus, 1968.
  • Sir Francis Bacon: A Biography, East-West Publications, 1981, George Mann, 1994.
  • The Comte de Saint-Germain - Last Scion of the House of Rakoczy, East-West Publications, 1988.
  • Blavatsky and Her Teachers, Theosophical Publishing House, 1988.
  • Déricourt, The Checkered Spy, Michael Russell, 1989 (she also translated Dericourt's “Espionage as a Fine Art” from French, with commentary, published by Michael Russell, 2002).
  • Cats and Other Immortals, Fuller d'Arch Smith, 1992.
  • The German Penetration of SOE, George Mann, 1996.
  • Sickert and the Ripper crimes: An investigation into the relationship between the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and the English tonal painter Walter Richard Sickert, Mandrake 1990, 2nd edited edition 2003.
  • Krishnamurti and the Wind, Theosophical Publishing House, 2003.
  • Driven to it. An Autobiography, Michael Russell 2007 (autobiography)

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References

  1. ^ A British spy ( SOE agent) of Indian origin, sent to occupied France in 1943, who was executed in the Dachau concentration camp and posthumously received the St. George's Cross and the Croix de Guerre
  2. ↑ As an agent of the SOE, he built an agent network, the Acrobat network, in the area of St. Etienne and Dijon in 1943 and was soon caught by the German occupiers (he was among others with Noor Inayat Khan in Paris which he made a failed attempt to escape) and was later sent to Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen. After the war he was suspected of being a double agent, but an official British investigation found no reliable evidence. He died in Switzerland in 1996
  3. ↑ The book is also a biography of Crowley, whom Fuller also knew personally from the 1930s
personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Jean Overton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH England
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2009
Place of death Kettering