Julian Osgood Field was born on April 23, 1852, the son of Maunsell Bradhurst Field (1822–75), who was an official of the US Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and Julia Field (née Stanton). Educated in England, he lived largely in London and Paris and became an intimate of the future King Edward VII of Great Britain. Field used the pseudonym "X.L." (or "Sigma") to write decadenthorror fiction. His anonymously authored books of recollections have been mined by biographers.
Despite his background, Field was a crook, moneylender's tout, and undischarged bankrupt, pursued by many creditors.[1] In 1901 he was sentenced to three months in prison for forging a document under the signature of a representative of Lord Astor's estate office which claimed he was to be paid a large sum of money for authoring society novels. Field used the document in an attempt to raise a loan.[2]
He was responsible for involving Lady Ida Sitwell, mother of Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell and Edith Sitwell in a long-running financial scandal, which began in 1912. In 1914, Lady Ida successfully sued Field for fraud and breach of duty.[3] The following year, she was imprisoned for three months, and Field for 18 months, for conspiring to defraud another wealthy lady, Francis Bennett Dobbs.[4]
1893 "The Luck of the Devil" published in The Pall Mall Magazine, October 1893
1894Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil and Other Tales (London: Methuen & Co.)
1896The Limb: An Episode of Adventure (A.D. Innes)
1898With All the Powders of the Merchant published in The Pall Mall Magazine, September to December 1898
Non-fiction bibliographyedit
1893 "A Few Words About Jules Sandeau" published in The Pall Mall Magazine, November 1893
1924 "Things I Shouldn't Tell" (London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1924). (This and the next two items were volumes of often scandalous reminiscences about late Victorian and Edwardian high society. All were published anonymously.)
^Greene, Richard Edith Sitwell: Avant garde poet, English genius, Hachett Digital, 2011
^"Author Convicted Of Forgery",Cheltenham Chronicle, 27 July 1901
^"Remarkable Action Settled", Western Daily Press, 5 November 1914.
^"Three Months Imprisonment For Conspiracy To Defraud", Western Gazette, 19 March 1915
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