The House: Turn of the century writer that supported feminism, pacifisim and labour reform

Walter Lionel George was born to British parents on the 20th March 1882 in Paris, France.

It was not until he was a young man of 20 that he learned English. In 1905 he moved to London to work in an office but soon found himself working as a journalist, and as a foreign correspondent, for various London newspapers.

By 1911, with the publication of his first novel `A Bed of Roses', which portrayed the fall of a penniless young woman into prostitution, his efforts were rewarded, and he turned to...