author
Alfred Yockney
Best known as an art writer and editor rather than a novelist, this early 20th-century British author wrote invitingly about historic houses, artists, and the visual world around him. His books have an easy, descriptive style that suits listeners who enjoy art, architecture, and glimpses of old England.
1 Audiobook
Old English Mansions
by Alfred Yockney
About the author
Alfred Yockney was a British writer, editor, and art-world organizer born in 1878 and died in 1963. Reliable archival and art-history sources describe him as closely involved with London’s West End galleries and art publishers, and as a figure who moved between writing, editing, and curatorial work.
He served as editor of The Art Journal and wrote books on art and architecture, including Old English Mansions and a study of the painter Edmund Blair Leighton. Sources also note that he was one of the directors of the Art Exhibitions Bureau, and that during 1917–1918 he was secretary to the British War Memorials Committee at the Ministry of Information.
That background helps explain the tone of his work: practical, observant, and full of interest in how pictures, buildings, and public culture are presented to a wide audience. For audiobook listeners, he is an appealing guide to older artistic and architectural subjects, with a voice shaped by both scholarship and real experience in the art world.