Jean Overton Fuller R.I.P.

[How Brown]

Dear Howard and People at JTR Forums,

This is to inform you that Jean Overton Fuller, author of 'Sickert and the Ripper Crimes' died yesterday while in hospital being treated for pneumonia, but alas didn't make it. She was very special, very kind and a most talented and scholarly author. We are very sad.

Best regards

Kim Morgan

The Forums offers its collective condolences to Mrs.Fuller's family and friends.

[Sam Flynn]

How sad - but a good innings, nevertheless. Rest in peace, Mrs Fuller.

[Robert Linford]

Yes, very sad. My condolences.

[Nemo]

My condolences to her family & friends...

[How Brown]

Jean Overton Fuller




(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Overton_Fuller#searchInput)
Jean Overton Fuller was a British (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom) author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author) best known for her book Madeleine, the story of Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, GC, MBE, CdG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inyat_Khan), an Indian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) heroine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroine) of World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II).
Fuller graduated with honors from the University of London.
Jean Overton Fuller was a personal friend of the Inayat Khan family. During World War II, she was employed by the British Postal Censorship Office in London. At the end of hostilities, she travelled extensively throughout Europe, interviewing various people connected with Noor's tragic, yet inspiring life.
The resultant publication, Madeleine, published by Victor Gollancz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gollancz) Ltd. in 1952, was re-published in 1988 by East-West Publications in Rotterdam. This updated version contains some chapters, which were eliminated from the original manuscript, such as an in-depth exploration of Tipu Sultan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan), Noor's ancestor.
Following the book's publication, Fuller continued extensive researches into the history of the wartime SOE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOE) French networks, interviewing many of the people involved - British and French, as well as Germans - in order to find who was responsible for betraying Noor and her fellow agents. Her results were published in the 1958 "Double Webs" (Putnam & Co).
Until the publication of Shrabani Basu's Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan (Sutton Publishing, 2006), Fuller's book was considered to be the definitive biography of Noor Inayat Khan.
Fuller also wrote several other biographies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography), most notably of Sir Francis Bacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Francis_Bacon), and a book detailing her theory of Jack the Ripper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper)'s true identity being Walter Richard Sickert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Richard_Sickert), an English painter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting).
Jean Overton Fuller's memoirs were published in 2007 by Michael Russell, Wilby, Norwich under the title "Driven To It, An Autobiography".
She died in Kettering on April 8th 2009 at the age of ninety-four.




Madeleine, 1952, Victor Gollancz.
The Starr Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starr_Affair), 1954, Victor Gollancz.
Double Webs, 1958, Putnam & Co.
Double Agent?, Pan Books Ltd, 1961.
The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg, W.H. Allen, 1965.
Shelley, A Biography, Jonathan Cape, 1968.
Swinburne, A Critical Biography, Chatto & Windus, 1968.
Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan (Madeleine) - reprinted with much additional material. East-West Publications in association with Barrie & Jenkins Ltd, London, 1971.
Sir Francis Bacon: A Biography, East-West Publications, 1981; George Mann, 1994.
The Comte de Saint-Germain, East-West Publications, 1988.
Blavatsky and Her Teachers, Theosophical Publishing House, 1988.
Dericourt, The Chequered Spy, Michael Russell, 1989.
Cats and Other Immortals, Fuller d'Arch Smith, 1992.
The German Penetration of SOE, George Mann, 1996.
Espionage as a Fine Art by Henri Dericourt. Translated from (previously unpublished) French original stories with an Introduction and Commentary, Michael Russell, 2002.
Sickert and the Ripper crimes: An investigation into the relationship between the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and the English tonal painter Walter Richard Sickert, Mandrake 1990, 2nd revised edition 2003.
Krishnamurti & The Wind, Theosophical Publishing House, 2003.
Driven To It, Michael Russell, 2007. er the title "Driven To It, An Autobiography".

[Mike Covell]

Gutted!

A fantastic writer who has filled my life with colour and inspiration.

Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

R.I.P

[How Brown]

A photo of Mrs. Fuller

[Chris G.]

Mrs. Fuller certainly had a wide-ranging career as a writer. Has anyone seen a full obituary of her anywhere?

Thanks

Chris

[How Brown]

C.G.

The information I recieved was from an email and afterwards I went to Wikipedia and put the info they had on the previous post.

[Bob Hinton]

Here is a photo of Jean at the Liverpool conference.

http://i908.photobucket.com/albums/ac287/HowieNina/fuller.jpg

[Chris G.]

Thanks, Bob and Howard.

Chris

[Caroline Morris]

Very sad.

Anyone who missed this great lady's talk at the Ripper Conference missed a real treat. Turned out to be one of the highlights of the weekend for me.

Love,

Caz
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