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Holbrook Jackson Author

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Dec 31, 1874
  • Died: Jan 1, 1948

George Holbrook Jackson (31 December 1874 - 16 June 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.

Holbrook Jackson was born in Liverpool, England. He worked as a clerk, while freelancing as a writer. Around 1900 he was in the lace trade in Leeds, where he met A. R. Orage; together they founded the Leeds Arts Club. At that time Jackson was a Fabian socialist, but also influenced by Nietzsche. It was Jackson who introduced Orage to Nietzsche, lending him a copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra in 1900.

Later they separately moved to London as journalists. In 1906, shortly after arriving in the capital, Jackson suggested founding a similar group to the Leeds Arts Club, the Fabian Arts Group. This eventually led to a split from the Fabian Society, whose interest was economic and political. In 1907, Jackson and Orage bought The New Age, a struggling Christian Socialist weekly magazine, with finance from Lewis Wallace and George Bernard Shaw.

No man is ever old enough to know better. aging

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. happiness

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. patience

Genius is initiative on fire. intelligence

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