Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating at times with John Gawsworth and possibly Arthur Machen, a long-term friend.
He was editor for a short period of Vanity Fair, where he employed Richard Middleton , and did much to preserve the latter's memory. He was also a translator, notably of the Arsène Lupin stories of Maurice Leblanc.
He was a member of the Square Club (from 1908) of established Edwardian authors, and also one of the more senior of the New Bohemians drinking club.
As a literary dynast: his son Selwyn Jepson 1899-1989 was known as a crime writer; his daughter Margaret (married name Birkinshaw) published novels as Margaret Jepson (including Via Panama) and as Pearl Bellairs ; and Margaret's daughter Franklin is the writer Fay Weldon. The Jepson domestic arrangements are commented on second-hand in Weldon's autobiographical writing.
Works
- Sir Jones (as Jean F. Darrell Poges)
- Sibyl Falcon (1895)
- The Keepers of the People
- On the Edge of Empire (1899) with David Beames
- The Dictator’s Daughter (1902)
- The Horned Shepherd (1904)
- Lady Noggs, Peeress (1905) children’s stories
- The admirable tinker : child of the world (1904)
- The Four Philanthropists (1907)
- Tangled Wedlock (1908)
- The Mystery of the Myrtles (1909)
- The Girls’ Head (1910)
- House On The Mall (1911)
- Pollyooly (1911) children's stories
- Captain Sentimental and other stories (1911)
- Lord Lisdor (1910)
- No.19 (1910)
- The Man with the Black Feather by Gaston Leroux (1912) translator
- Terrible Twins (1913)
- The second Pollyooly book. (1914) children's stories
- The triumph of Tinker
- Alice Devine (1916)
- The Professional Prince (1917)
- Ann Annington (1918)
- Prince In Petrograd (1922)
- Lady Noggs Assists (1924)
- Buried Rubies (1926)
- The Loudwater Mystery (1926)
- Emerald Tiger (1928)
- Cuirass Of Diamonds (1929)
- The Moon Gods (1930)
- Memories of a Victorian (1933) Autobiography
- Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian (1937) Autobiography
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