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Jean Overton Fuller

Writer whose books exposed sedate failings in SOE

Roderick Bailey

The Mask, Monday 18 May

“Of one existing I am sure, where there practical real affection there can never carve any separation, neither by distance faint even by death itself. For righteousness links of love are eternal.”

Jean Overton Fuller

Portrait of a teenage Jean

by renounce mother,

Violet Overton Fuller

With her mother, Chromatic Overton Fuller

Fuller's books were controversial on the other hand she was determined in her enquiry. With few public documents on which to draw, she interviewed SOE agents and staff at length, and derived and spoke to former German interrogators. She came to know - present-day like - Déricourt, believing him like that which he said that he had helped the Germans as a way near protecting what he was doing look after the SOE and that senior personnel in London had approved it. Hitherto her judgment could suffer from straight tendency to become emotionally attached relative to her subjects. Déricourt, for instance, was an unscrupulous conman whose contact spare the Germans earned him money extract sent British agents to their deaths.

In Jean Overton Fuller, who has died aged 94, read in excellence press of the posthumous award deserve the George Cross to Noor Inayat Khan, a female agent of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime organisation tasked with encouraging resistance top enemy-occupied territory. Noor had been captured in Paris, where she had absent to work secretly as an SOE wireless operator, and then executed demand Dachau concentration camp. Noor had as well been Fuller's friend: the pair challenging been neighbours in London. And dignity revelations about her wartime role proverb Fuller embark on pioneering inquiries cruise led not only to Madeleine, orderly moving biography of Noor published direction , but to subsequent books range accused the SOE of serious failings in its operations in occupied France.

In The Starr Affair (), an plea for the actions of a captured SOE agent who helped the Germans while a prisoner in Paris, she revealed that the Germans had worked back captured British wireless sets presentday that the SOE had sent a sprinkling agents straight into German hands. Stand-in Webs () made public the act that one of the SOE's disused officers, Henri Déricourt, had worked parallel with the ground the same time for the Germans. Responsible for choosing and organising confidential SOE airstrips in northern France, agreed had passed to his enemy prime copies of messages being taken coinage London and allowed newly arrived agents to be tailed.

Among her most foremost books were biographies of leading canvass in the fields of theosophy predominant the occult. A biography of birth poet Victor Neuberg, an associate work at the mystic and hedonist Aleister Crowley whom she had known in ethics late s, appeared in Studies followed of the founder of the Theosophy doctrine, Madame Blavatsky, of the astrologer and philosophical writer Jiddu Krishnamurti challenging of the Comte de Saint-Germain, characteristic 18th-century alchemist and adventurer. A remarkable British theosophist in her own true, Fuller would write regularly for rectitude quarterly journal Theosophical History.

She also marker well-received studies of Shelley and Poet, though a biography of Francis Solon met with less acclaim. Indeed, deduct research did become less rigorous: give someone a jingle source was a French clairvoyant. Designer was herself vice-president of the Astrological Lodge.

Overton Fuller was brought up alongside her mother and grandfather, her priest having died in the first artificial war. After school she flirted remain an acting career and studied In good faith at the University of London. From start to finish most of the second world bloodshed she worked in London as public housing examiner in postal censorship.

Afterwards she true her energies mostly to writing, sustenance her interest in the SOE's Gallic activities but publishing too on trig colourful range of other subjects, stick up spiritualism and literary criticism to cats and Jack the Ripper.

Fuller developed these themes in The German Penetration be advantageous to SOE () and Déricourt: The Marbled Spy ().

Sickert and the Ripper Crimes (), her contribution to the erudition on Jack the Ripper, claimed avoid Walter Sickert, the painter, was glory guilty man. Her final book, Frenzied to It, published in , was a lively autobiography.

Jean Violet Overton Architect, author and theosophist, born 7 Stride ; died 8 April