In 1900, he met Holbrook Jackson in a Leeds bookshop, and lent him a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita.

The failure of this project spurred him in 1907, supported by George Bernard Shaw, to buy the weekly magazine The New Age, in partnership with Holbrook Jackson.

Holbrook Jackson later wrote, "The theme is so painful as to be almost unbearable.

In 1910, a now-forgotten British writer popular in his time, Holbrook Jackson, wrote: "In a beautiful city an art gallery would be superfluous.

The first president, Roberts writes, was Holbrook Jackson.

Holbrook Jackson was born in Liverpool, England.

Holbrook Jackson, who analyzed 1890's England, noted a pattern of "fin de siecle tendencies" - daring, bizarre, foreboding.

Another venture which resurrected the broadside idea was the Flying Fame Press founded in 1912 by Holbrook Jackson, Claude Lovat Fraser and Ralph Hodgson.

Early reviews were tentative, but grew more positive after Holbrook Jackson reviewed the novel favorably in T.P.'s Weekly.

Around 1900 Penty had met A. R. Orage; together with Holbrook Jackson they founded the Leeds Arts Club.