Alfred Richard Orage

Alfred R. Orage
Born(1873-01-22)22 January 1873
Died6 November 1934(1934-11-06) (aged 61)
London, England
Occupation(s)teacher, lecturer, writer, editor, publisher
Known forEditor of The New Age
Spouses
Jean Walker
(m. 1896; div. 1927)
Jessie Richards Dwight
(m. 1927)
Children2

Alfred Richard Orage[a] (22 January 1873 – 6 November 1934) was a British influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age before the First World War. While he was working as a schoolteacher in Leeds he pursued various interests, including Plato, the Independent Labour Party and theosophy. In 1900, he met Holbrook Jackson and three years later they co-founded the Leeds Arts Club, which became a centre of modernist culture in Britain.[4] After 1924, Orage went to France to work with George Gurdjieff and was then sent to the United States by Gurdjieff to raise funds and lecture. He translated several of Gurdjieff's works.

  1. ^ Curtis, Anthony (1998). Lit Ed: On Reviewing and Reviewers. Carcanet Press Limited. p. 163. ISBN 9781857543247.
  2. ^ Carswell, John (1978). Lives and Letters: A. R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S. S. Koteliansky: 1906-1957. New Directions Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 9780811206815.
  3. ^ Wilhelm, J. J. (2010). Ezra Pound in London and Paris, 1908-1925. Penn State Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0271040998.
  4. ^ Mairet, Philip (1966). A. R. Orage. University Books Inc. p. 63. No better 'argumentative' English was ever written.


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