Storm Jameson

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SJ was a prolific novelist with an intense commitment to political causes, especially pacifism, anti-fascism, artistic freedom, and various women's issues. Her fiction is generally thought of as realist or materialist in its techniques, and often draws liberally on fact (from her own life, historical events, and characteristics of actual people), though she experimented with its shape and matter more often than has been recognised. She also wrote political and polemical non-fiction, journalism, essays, literary criticism, and autobiography.

Milestones

8 January 1891

Margaret Ethel Jameson (later SJ ) was born at Whitby in North Yorkshire.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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20 March 1913

SJ first reached print with an essay on G. B. Shaw , published in the New Age.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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May 1945

SJ published The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell, which she ranked among her strongest fiction and called a partly autobiographical book.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
36: 71

1979

At the age of eighty-eight SJ published her last book, Speaking of Stendhal, a chiefly biographical study of the French novelist .
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
36: 71, 78

30 September 1986

SJ died in Cambridge at the age of ninety-five; late in her life she had developed Alzheimer's disease.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Labon, Joanna. “Tracing Storm Jameson”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol.
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Biography

Birth and Local Influence

8 January 1891

Margaret Ethel Jameson (later SJ ) was born at Whitby in North Yorkshire.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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