No one is so obscure as a once-famous journalist, and by mentioning George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) I do not mean to recommend his works.
In the first decade of the 20th century, Holbrook Jackson was pretty well known among the journalistic intelligentsia to which the era pretended. In 1900 he met the absurd figure of A R Orage (an admirer of Gurdijeff) in a Leeds bookshop and lent him a copy of Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra, receiving in return a copy of the Bhagavad Gita. He also acquired Mrs Orage, who was fed up with her husband Dickie’s infatuation with Beatrice Hastings, a sort of bohemian Theosophist.
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