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John Francis Bloxam
1873–1928
An Oxford-educated cleric and writer, he is remembered for a small but striking body of late Victorian work that briefly stirred literary scandal. His name is most closely linked to a single controversial story and to the short-lived magazine that carried it.
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The Priest and the Acolyte With an Introductory Protest by Stuart Mason
by John Francis Bloxam
About the author
Born in 1873, he studied at Exeter College, Oxford, and as an undergraduate edited the only issue of The Chameleon, a magazine published in 1894. In that issue he printed his best-known story, The Priest and the Acolyte, which later became notorious because it was drawn into the public atmosphere surrounding the Oscar Wilde trials.
Bloxam is usually described as an English churchman and author, and he has often been associated with the Uranian literary tradition. Although his surviving reputation rests on very little published work, that work has continued to attract attention from readers interested in fin-de-siècle literature, censorship, and queer literary history.
He died in 1928. No clear portrait image could be confidently confirmed from the sources reviewed, so none is included here.