December 17, 1881

Louis Wilkinson is better known by his pseudonym Louis Marlow (December 17, 1881 to September 12, 1966). He wrote novels and biographies. We read of Louis Marlow that he:

'was a colourful figure known to his friends as The Archangel on account of his imperious looks and manner, and as a young man was sent down from Oxford for blasphemy but accepted, in a retort to its fustier rival, by Cambridge instead. He is most known as the friend and biographer of the Powys family, but he also wrote a number of brisk, satirical novels which have mostly receded from view. Aleister Crowley was quoted as saying of one of these, 'In all literature I know no pages so terrifying as those in Louis Marlow's Mr. Amberthwaite.' ...Louis Marlow's Seven Friends (1953) is a lively account of Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris, Alester Crowley, John Cowper Powys, T F Powys, Llewelyn Powys and Somerset Maugham. Perhaps somewhat overshadowed by the Powys connection, his own quite different work is due more attention.'

In his work noted above, the biography Seven Friends, there is this quote:

'Like all humanists Lewellyn Powys had a hatred and horror of war, but he could never accept pacifist doctrines. Nothing but force will stop force, he wrote to a pacifist friend.
"The cat will torture until the mouse is black with her spittle and then will in the end eat up all. It is a very deep law."

Just a couple of his books, novels,--

Brute Gods (1919)
The Devil in Crystal (1944).

This guy is an example of a writer whose life is more interesting than his books.