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3 unusual facts about Hubert Crackanthorpe


Hubert Crackanthorpe

Hubert's body was found in the Seine on Christmas Eve; it is unknown whether he was a victim of foul play, or if he succumbed to a suicidal impulse.

Critics tend to group Crackanthorpe together with a clutch of young British writers and artists of the 1890s who suffered untimely deaths caused by various factors, including suicide, alcohol abuse or tuberculosis; e.g. Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and the two editors of the Yellow Book, Aubrey Beardsley and Henry Harland.

Over the years, Crackanthorpe had been associated with an avant-garde literary magazine known as the Yellow Book; there is evidence that Crackanthorpe's family tried to hide his association with the Yellow Book.



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