The cover to John Hall's biography of this writer, A Kind of Life, is one of his illustrations, Une revers, showing the author in formal wear and slippers.
The cover to John Hall's biography of this writer, A Kind of Life, is one of his illustrations, Une revers, showing the author in formal wear and slippers. His "Defence of Cosmetics" appeared in Aubrey Beardsley's The Yellow Book  and he succeeded George Bernard Shaw as drama critic of the Saturday Review.  His collection Seven Men  contains the story of a man who makes a deal with the devil to discover what posterity thinks of him by appearing 100 years later in the British Museum Library, "Enoch Soames". His only novel is about a woman whose beauty drives Oxford students to suicide. For 10 points, name this turn of the century British caricaturist and author of Zukelia Dobson.
The cover to John Hall's biography of this writer, A Kind of Life, is one of his illustrations, Une revers, showing the author in formal wear and slippers.
Max Beerbohm