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Jack Lindsay (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, but spent his formative years in Brisbane. He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of author Philip Lindsay. Early life Lindsay was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland under J. L. Michie, from which he graduated with first class honours in Greek and Latin. On 27 October 1922 at the district registrar’s office, Waverton, he married Janet Beaton, granddaughter of W. B. Dalley. He started his literary career in 1923 as a poet with a book Fauns and Ladies, illustrated by his father. In the 1920s he contributed stories and poems to a popular weekly magazine, The Bulletin, as well as editing the literary magazines Vision (with his father Norman) and London Aphrodite.Lindsay founded, with P. R. Stephensen and John Kirtley, the Fanfrolico Press for fine publishing, initially in North Sydney. He left Australia in 1926, never to return. When the University of Queensland Press tried to persuade him to come to Australia for the launch of The Blood Vote in 1985, he declined. In the UK Lindsay and P.R. Stephensen established two short-lived magazines, Vision and The London Aphrodite, which were published by the Fanfrolico Press in the 1920s. In the 1930s the Fanfrolico Press ceased as a business. Lindsay described that experience later in the autobiographical work Fanfrolico and After (1962). He moved to the left politically, writing for Left Review and joining the Communist Party of Great Britain at the end of the decade, becoming an activist. He started writing novels while living in Cornwall. Lindsay's earliest novels were set in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire; they included Cressida's First Lover (1931), Rome For Sale and Caesar Is Dead (both 1934). Lindsay's historical fiction also includes 1649: A Novel of a Year (1938), a social realist novel that begins with the execution of Charles I of England and explores the first year of the Republic through the eyes of ordinary citizens. He wrote 1649 as an anti-fascist novel. He collaborated with Edgell Rickword amongst others. During World War II, Lindsay served in the British Army initially in the Royal Signal Corps. From 1943 he worked for the War Office on theatrical scripts. He began an affair with the actor and activist Ann Davies which was announced as a marriage although Lindsay was still married. Ann was popularly known as Ann Lindsay.After the war Lindsay lived in Castle Hedingham, becoming the subject of defamation and suppression because of his Communist standpoint. Being a prolific writer, he published 169 books including 38 novels and 25 volumes of translations (from Latin, Greek, Russian, and Polish), as well as art, literary, classical, historical and political studies, biographies and autobiographies written from a Marxist perspective.Lindsay was a vegetarian all his adult life. Awards Lindsay was awarded the Soviet Order of the Badge of Honour in 1967, an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Queensland in 1973. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1946), the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1982), and a Member of the Order of Australia (1981). Works Fanfrolico Press books, as translator, author or editor Lysistrata by Aristophanes (1925). Illustrated by Norman Lindsay The Mimiambs of Herodas (1929). Translated by Jack Lindsay, Decorated by Alan Odle, with a Foreword by Brian Penton. A Defence of Women for their Inconstancy & their Paintings by Jack Donne (1925) The Passionate Neatherd. A lyric sequence (1926) Marino Faliero (1927). Drama William Blake; Creative Will and the Poetic Image (1927) The Metamorphosis of Aiax by Sir John Harington (1927). Editor with Peter Warlock Propertius in Love (1927) translator Loving Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the XVI and XVII Centuries (1927). Illustrations by Norman Lindsay Helen comes of age. Three Plays (1927) The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius Done into English By Jack Lindsay with one Hundred Illustrations by Norman Lindsay; Comprising the Satyricon and Poems (1927, privately printed for sale to subscribers only) The Parlement of Pratlers by John Eliot (1928). Editor, illustrated by Hal Collins Homage to Sappho (1928) Inspirations. An anthology of utterances by Creative Minds defining the creative act and its lyrical basis in life (1928). Editor The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes edited with a memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse and decorated by the Dance of Death of Holbein (1928). Editor Dionysos: Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche. An Essay in Lyrical Philosophy (1928) Homer's Hymns to Aphrodite (1929) Hereward. A Play (1929, music by John Gough) Women in Parliament by Aristophanes (1929). Illustrations by Norman Lindsay, foreword by Edgell Rickword Theocritos, The Complete Poems (1929). Introduction by Edward Hutton, illustrations by Lionel Ellis The Complete Poetry of Gaius Catullus (1930). Editor Morgan in Jamaica (1930) Patchwork Quilt. Poems by Decimus Magnus Ausonius (1930). Translator, illustrations by Edward BawdenTo 1929 Fauns and Ladies (1923). Poems Poetical Sketches by William Blake. With an Essay on Blake's Metric by Jack Lindsay. (Scholartis Press 1927) The Modern Consciousness: An Essay Towards an Integration (1928) I See the Earth: Poems by Elza De Locre, Illustrated by Peter Meadows (pseudonym for Jack Lindsay), (Scholartis Press 1928)1930–1939 Cressida's First Lover (1931) The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius (Rarity Press, 1932). Translator, illustrated by Norman Lindsay The Golden Ass. (The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, Limited Editions Club, 1932). Translator, illustrated by Percival Goodman Medieval Latin Poets (1934) I am a Roman (1934) Rome for Sale (1934) Caesar is Dead (1934) Last Days With Cleopatra (1935) Despoiling Venus (1935) Storm at Sea (Golden Cockerel Press, 1935). Illustrated by John Farleigh The Romans (1935). Illustrated by Pearl Binder Runaway (1935). Illustrated by J Morton Sale Who Are the English? (1936). Poem Come Home at Last (1936). Short stories Adam of a New World (1936). A novel about Giordano Bruno Wanderings of Wenamem 1115-1114 B.C (1936). Novel Rebels of the Gold Fields (1936) John Bunyan: Maker of Myths (1937) The Anatomy of Spirit: An Inquiry into the Origins of Religious Emotion (1937) Sue Verney (1937) Marc Anthony. His world and his contemporaries (1937) To Arms: A Story of Ancient Gaul (1938). Illustrated by Martin Tyas 1649: A Novel of a Year (1938) Brief Light: A Novel of Catullus (1939) A Handbook of Freedom: A Record of English Democracy through Twelve Centuries (1939) with Edgell Rickword, later editions as Spokesmen for Liberty Lost Birthright (1939) A Short History of Culture from Prehistory to the Renascence (1939) England, My England: A Pageant of the English People (Fore Publications, 1939) Key Books pamphlet No. 21940–1949 Giuliano the Magnificent (1940). .... Discover the Aristophanes Norman Lindsay popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Aristophanes Norman Lindsay books.