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Michael Walmer has set about publishing a list where the main ingredient is quality. Authors will be sourced from all over the world, with a love of erudition, be it elegant or rough-edged, simple or complex, poetic or blunt, or all of these!, as the enlivening and guiding principle.
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Max Beerbohm
Born in 1872, MAX BEERBOHM was a regular contributor to magazines, a playwright, a novelist and, crucially, an essayist and caricaturist. He married Florence Kahn in 1910; they moved to Rapallo in Italy and stayed there, apart from the periods of the two world wars, for the rest of their lives. Knighted in 1939, Sir Max died in 1956.
Ada Leverson
ADA LEVERSON (nee Beddington) was born in 1862. She married Ernest Leverson at the age of 19, against her parents' consent, but the marriage was not a success. She became a contributor to several literary and artistic journals including Black and White, St Stephen's Review and, most notably, The Yellow Book in the 1890s.
It was at this time, after she published a brilliantly successful sketch parody of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, that Oscar Wilde desired to meet her, and dubbed her The Sphinx. They became the greatest of friends, and she was instrumental in helping him after the disaster of his trial, when many others deserted him.
Her six sparklingly witty novels were published between 1907 and 1916. She died in 1933.
Howard Sturgis
HOWARD STURGIS was born in London in 1855 into a prominent American family. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. His social connections enabled him to mix in the transatlantic set, where he developed friendships with Henry James and Edith Wharton. He published three novels: Tim in 1891, All that was Possible in 1895, and his masterpiece Belchamber in 1904. He died in 1920 at the age of 65.