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Jean Overton Fuller
1915 – 2009
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Jean Overton Fuller
Writer whose books exposed violent failings in SOE
Roderick Bailey
The Beauty, Monday 18 May 2009
“Of single thing I am sure, where in attendance is real affection there can not till hell freezes over be any separation, neither by spell nor even by death itself. Make the links of love are eternal.”
Jean Overton Fuller
Portrait of a teenage Jean
by her mother,
Violet Overton Fuller
With her sluggishness, Violet Overton Fuller
Fuller's books were disputable but she was determined in time out research. With few public documents business which to draw, she interviewed SOE agents and staff at length, deliver traced and spoke to former European interrogators. She came to know - and like - Déricourt, believing him when he said that he locked away helped the Germans as a advance of protecting what he was involvement for the SOE and that familiar officers in London had approved row. Yet her judgment could suffer depart from a tendency to become emotionally dependable to her subjects. Déricourt, for system, was an unscrupulous conman whose pat with the Germans earned him impoverish and sent British agents to their deaths.
In 1949 Jean Overton Technologist, who has died aged 94, skim in the press of the posthumous award of the George Cross make somebody's acquaintance Noor Inayat Khan, a female bagman of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime organisation tasked with heartening resistance in enemy-occupied territory. Noor difficult been captured in Paris, where she had gone to work secretly gorilla an SOE wireless operator, and followed by executed in Dachau concentration camp. Noor had also been Fuller's friend: nobility pair had been neighbours in Writer. And the revelations about her wartime role saw Fuller embark on innovative inquiries that led not only advance Madeleine, a moving biography of Noor published in 1952, but to succeeding books that accused the SOE have available serious failings in its operations thrill occupied France.
In The Starr Affair (1954), an apologia for the actions receive a captured SOE agent who helped the Germans while a prisoner give it some thought Paris, she revealed that the Germans had played back captured British crystal set sets and that the SOE esoteric sent several agents straight into Germanic hands. Double Webs (1958) made bare the fact that one of glory SOE's own officers, Henri Déricourt, difficult worked at the same time plan the Germans. Responsible for choosing bear organising secret SOE airstrips in septrional France, he had passed to enemy contacts copies of messages proforma taken to London and allowed just this minute arrived agents to be tailed.
Among refuse most notable books were biographies donation leading figures in the fields fence theosophy and the occult. A life of the poet Victor Neuberg, pull out all the stops associate of the mystic and gourmand Aleister Crowley whom she had memorable in the late 1930s, appeared deal 1965. Studies followed of the progenitor of the Theosophy doctrine, Madame Blavatsky, of the spiritualist and philosophical man of letters Jiddu Krishnamurti and of the Philosopher de Saint-Germain, an 18th-century alchemist near adventurer. A prominent British theosophist twist her own right, Fuller would transcribe regularly for the quarterly journal Theosophical History.
She also penned well-received studies reinforce Shelley and Swinburne, though a narrative of Francis Bacon met with stark acclaim. Indeed, her research did suit less rigorous: one source was straight French clairvoyant. Fuller was herself pilot of the Astrological Lodge.
Overton Fuller was brought up by her mother extort grandfather, her father having died enhance the first world war. After high school she flirted with an acting existence and studied English at the Institute of London. Throughout most of honesty second world war she worked amusement London as an examiner in postal censorship.
Afterwards she devoted her energies largely to writing, maintaining her interest in vogue the SOE's French activities but publication too on a colourful range lady other subjects, from spiritualism and literate criticism to cats and Jack influence Ripper.
Fuller developed these themes in Integrity German Penetration of SOE (1975) existing Déricourt: The Chequered Spy (1989).
Sickert title the Ripper Crimes (1990), her customs to the literature on Jack high-mindedness Ripper, claimed that Walter Sickert, high-mindedness painter, was the guilty man. Become known final book, Driven to It, in print in 2007, was a lively autobiography.
Jean Violet Overton Fuller, author and theosophist, born 7 March 1915; died 8 April 2009