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Life and Career
From the photograph by Hoppé, frontispiece to Gekle.
Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863–1947), better known by his pen-name, Arthur Machen, was an influential Welsh writer of supernatural, occult and mystical stories.
Born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Machen was the son of a clergyman and educated as a boarder at the Cathedral School, Hereford. Paying the fees was problematic and financial constraints made it impossible for him to attend university.
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Although he came from a middle-class background his career was never less than difficult, and in a long life he was invariably troubled with economic problems, sometimes being one step ahead of poverty. Most of his life was spent in London and the south-east of England, but Monmouthshire, or Gwent, remained a psychological presence, and was an important part of his imaginative vision.
This remained for him ‘the enchanted land’ (Far Off Things 8).
Machen twice married and had two children by his second wife, supporting his fa