JEAN OVERTON FULLER

 

Jean Overton Fuller is no stranger to controversy. For more than half a century she has been exploding myths in a manner than has often lead to a complete reappraisal of the establishment view. The only child of Indian Army Officer Capt J H M Fuller and the artist Violet Overton Fuller, she holds a degree in English from London University. She had a brief career on the stage and knew Victor Neuberg, (magical partner of Aleister Crowley) and his circle in the mid 1930s.

During World War II she used her eagle eye to search for espionage in sensitive postal communications. She later made researches into the fate of her friend Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan and other British agents in France under German occupation.

Jean Overton Fuller's acclaimed biography Noor-un-Nisa-Inayat Khan (Madeleine) was first published by Victor Gollancz in September 1952, and because of the enormous public empathy to the heroic life and death of beautiful Princess Noor, had run into fourth impression by November of the same year. Several subsequent editions followed, including a Pan paperback entitled Born For Sacrifice, and a new hardback edition by East-West Publications in 1988.

Miss Fuller joined the Theosophical Society in 1940, and is a former vice-president of the Astrological Lodge of London.

She is a regular contributor to the scholarly journal THEOSOPHICAL HISTORY founded by Leslie Price and edited by Professor James Santucci.

 

 

 

DRIVEN TO IT
- AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

by JEAN OVERTON FULLER

Published 2007 by Michael Russell
ISBN 978-0-85955-306-3
£17.95 / Hardback / 376 pp / Illustrated with previously unreleased photographs.

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.

 

The Magical Dilemma
of Victor Neuburg

 

By Jean Overton Fuller

ISBN 1869928792
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
Price: / £12.99
Format: Trade Paperback
Category: Biography / Occult / Magick

 

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The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg

Jean Overton Fuller / £12.99 / $26 
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'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!'
- (ME) In Prediction Magazine November 2005

 

 

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.

Contents: Beginnings / Mystic of the Agnostic Journal / Crowley and the Golden Dawn / Initiation / Magical Retirement / Equinox and Algeria / Rites of Eleusis / Triumph of Pan / Desert / Triangles / Moon Above the Tower / Templars and the Tradition of Sheikh El Djebel / Paris Working / The Sanctuary / Arcanum Arcanorum / Dylan Thomas

Reviews:

'Those interested in Western occult history will welcome this revised and expanded edition of an important work first published in 1965.

Overton Fuller's biography of Neuburg paints an intimate portrait of this complex character who was as much mystic as poet. A prominent figure in London's literary bohemia in the 1930s, Neuburg encouraged such writers as Dylan Thomas, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Hugo Manning and many others, including Overton Fuller.

In his earlier days, Neuburg had been a disciple, magical partner and possibly even lover of Aleister Crowley during a period of ground-breaking magical experiments.

‘Vicky encouraged me as no one else has done,’ Dylan Thomas declared on hearing of Neuburg’s death. ‘He possessed many kinds of genius, and not the least was his genius for drawing to himself, by his wisdom, graveness, great humour and innocence, a feeling of trust and love, that won’t ever be forgotten.’ ‘ . . . there was a whiff of sulphur abroad, and all of us would have liked to know the truth of the Aleister Crowley’s legends, the truth of the witch-like baroness called Cremers, the abandonment of Neuburg in the desert.’

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

 

Sickert and The Ripper Crimes

by Jean Overton Fuller

 

ISBN 1869928687
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
Price: £12.99
Format: Paperback
Category: Art / Classic British Crime Studies / True Crime

 

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Sickert and The Ripper Crimes

Jean Overton Fuller / £12.99 / $26


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'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
 

 

Click here for a website dedicated to Jean Overton Fuller

which features an interview with this remarkable author,
and an article on Noor Inyat Khan and SOE.

 

OTHER BOOKS BY JEAN OVERTON FULLER

BIOGRAPHIES & STUDIES

Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan (Madeleine)
The Starr Affair
Double Webs
Horoscope for a Double Agent
Shelley, A Biography
Swinburne, A Biography
The German Penetration of S O E
Sir Francis Bacon, A Biography
The Comte de Saint-Germain, Last Scion of the House of Rákóczy
Blavatsky and Her Teachers
Déricourt, The Chequered Spy
Krishnamurti and The Wind
Driven to it, An Autobiography

POETRY

Carthage and the Midnight Sun
The Sun's Cart
Silver Planet
Darun and Pitar
Gilby
Tintagel
Prophecy from Helen

POETRY IN TRANSLATION

Shiva's Dance (from the French of Helene Bouvard)
That the Gods May Remember (from the French of Helene Bouvard)
The Prophet (from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin)

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