Enlargement: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

John Davys Beresford was born on 17th March 1873. His life was blighted by infantile paralysis which left him partially disabled.

After an education at Oundle school he trained to be an architect. However, he quickly decided that his life was to be centred on a literary career. His first offerings were in drama and as a journalist.

As well as being a book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian he contributed to New Statesman, The Spectator, Westminster Gazette, and the Theosophist magazine The ...