Jackson, (George) Holbrook (1874-1948)

English literary historian. He was joint editor with A R Orage of the political and literary journal New Age 1907, editor of T. P.'s Magazine 1911-12 and T. P.'s Weekly 1911-14, and owner and editor of a literary journal, Today, 1917-23. He wrote studies of Edward FitzGerald 1899 and Bernard Shaw 1907, and a biography of William Morris 1908. His book The Eighteen Nineties 1913 is a standard work on the period.

An authority on book production, he collaborated in A Brief Survey of Printing 1923 and wrote The Printing of Books 1938.

Born in Liverpool, Jackson entered journalism 1907. Alongside his work on New Age, he contributed as a freelance writer to most of the leading periodicals of the day and from 1910 he was associated with Thomas Power O'Connor (1848-1929) in the latter's publications.