Background
Percy Lubbock was the son of the merchant banker Frederic Lubbock (1844–1927) and his wife Catherine (1848–1934), daughter of John Gurney (1809–1856) of Earlham Hall, Norfolk, a member of the influential Norwich banking family.
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Percy Lubbock was the son of the merchant banker Frederic Lubbock (1844–1927) and his wife Catherine (1848–1934), daughter of John Gurney (1809–1856) of Earlham Hall, Norfolk, a member of the influential Norwich banking family.
He was educated at Eton College and King"s College, Cambridge.
He was brought up at Emmetts near Ide Hill in Kent. He lived at Gli Scafari, a villa on the Gulf of Spezia designed by Cecil Pinsent. Towards the end of his life he went blind, and was read to by Quentin Crewe.
Later scholars have questioned editorial decisions he made in publishing the James letters in 1920, at a time when many of those concerned were still alive.
Mark Schorer, in his introduction to a reprint of Lubbock"s The Craft of Fiction, described him as "more Jamesian than James".
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Well-placed socially, his intellectual connections included his Cambridge contemporary East. M. Forster, Edith Wharton ( he was a member of her Inner Circle from about 1906), Howard Sturgis and Bernard Berenson.
He was a good friend of in James"s later life, and became a follower in literary terms, and his editor after his death.