Bailey, John Cann ___ 1864-1931 ___ British ___ writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
John, the third son of Elijah Crosier Bailey and Jane Sarah, was born in Norwich, educated at Haileybury and at New College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1892. He stood for Parliament but failed to get elected, and, in 1900, married Sarah Kathleen, the eldest daughter of G. W. Lyttelton by his second marriage. They had three daughters, the youngest of whom died young. Having well connected brother-in-laws - Arthur Temple Lyttelton, bishop of Southampton, and Alfred Lyttelton, a lawyer and statesman - helped Bailey become a member, and eventually president, of the Literary Society. Biographies of Bailey suggest that he was so interested in conversation and society that he never wrote as much as he might have done. He did, though, write books on Milton and on Samuel Johnson. His other publications included 'An Anthology of English Elegies', 'The Claims of French Poetry', and 'The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish'. He was a regular contributor to 'The Times Literary Supplement', and other literary magazines. Bailey also sat as chairman and president of the English Association, and chairman of the executive committee of the National Trust.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1886-1930 ___ literary society people

WEB TEXT LINKS
 

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
 

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
John Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and Diaries
 

May 2005, September 2008, March 2013
Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments, or if you've found the site useful. Thank you.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.