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to be mistaken for sitelink John Addington SymondsJohn SymondsMarch, Battersea, LondonOctoberwas an English novelist, biographer, playwright and writer of childrens books.
At the age of sixteen he moved to London and began educating himself by spending long hours in the reading room of the British Museum.
A partial reconciliation with his father resulted in the latter funding research work that John Symonds would later mine for his own novels later in life.
His first job was at Hulton Press, working as a journalist on Picture Post and during this period he became friends with Dylan Thomas and Stephen Spender.
Being exempted from military service, he edited Lilliput magazine during which time he briefly married Hedwig Feue Not to be mistaken for sitelink John Addington SymondsJohn SymondsMarch, Battersea, LondonOctoberwas an English novelist, biographer, playwright and writer of children's books.
At the age of sixteen he moved to London and began educating himself by spending long hours in the reading room of the British Museum.
A partial reconciliation with his father resulted in the latter funding research work that John Symonds would later mine for his own novels later in life.
His first job was at Hulton Press, working as a journalist on Picture Post and during this period

he became friends with Dylan Thomas and Stephen Spender.
Being exempted from military service, he edited 'Lilliput' magazine during which time he briefly married Hedwig Feuerstein, Inhe married Renata Israel, and the following yearhe published his first novel, William Waste, This was followed inby The Lady in the Tower, and, in, by another love story, A Girl Among Poets, which won praise from Sir John Betjeman, who wrote of the author's "gift for describing farcical situations".
Symonds met the infamous occultist and founder of the Thelemite religion, Aleister Crowley in, the year before Crowley's death.
Crowley's will left the copyright of his works to his unincorporated magical society, the Ordo Templi Orientis O.
T. O. , and made him Crowley's literary executor, though Crowley's legal status as an undischarged bankrupt meant that the copyrights actually ended up in receivership.
At first fascinated by Crowley, Symonds became increasingly critical of his ideas and manners, in particular the use of drugs and sex.
Along with one of Crowley's disciples, Kenneth Grant, Symonds edited and republished Crowley's autobiography and a number of his other works.
Further to this, he authored four biographical works of his own: The Great Beast, The Magic of Aleister Crowley, The King of the Shadow Realmand The Beast.
Due to his somewhat negative attitude to Crowley in these works, there were many involved in Thelema and ceremonial magic who were themselves critical of Symonds, including Israel Regardie, who called him "that most hostile biographer.
" Nonetheless, his significance in keeping Crowley's legacy alive has also been recognised, and it has been noted that "Regardless of his reception, it is no exagerration to state that without the publication efforts of Symonds and Grant Crowley could easily have been a forgotten figure by thes.
"He found his widest largest audience in the writing of children's books, In 'The Magic Currant Bun',, a boy chases a magic bun, which came out of an oven, through the streets of Paris He enjoyed the bun very much when he caught it in his mouth.
His feline magical fantasy, Isle of Cats illustrated by Gerard Hoffnung, followed in, Lottie, is the story of a talking doll and dog, Edward Ardizzone was the illustrator for this book and Elfrida and the Pig, a story about little girl who is not allowed to play with dolls until she finished her punishment which was to trim her parent's bushes.
After a period of writing children's books Symonds returned to biographies inwith Madame Blavatsky, Medium and Magician, a life of the famous Theosophist.
This was followed inwith Thomas Brown and the Angels: A Study in Enthusiasm, about the life of a Methodist who becomes involved with the Shakers.
Novels followed, beginning with William Waste, The Lady in the Tower, A girl among poets, then a gothic fantasy, Bezill, then Light Over Water, in which a journalist researches into the world of the occult.
The subject of With a View on the Palaceis a Russian film director who becomes obsessed with the Royal Family to the point of hiring an apartment near Buckingham Palace sitelink.