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Jessica Jones on the cover of #14. Pictured clockwise from top left: Jones as Jewel; with husband; with daughter Danielle; as Knightress. Publication information #1 (November ) (writer) (artist) In-story information Full name Jessica Campbell Jones Cage Team affiliations Partnerships Notable aliases Jewel, Knightress, Power Woman Abilities. and.

Jessica Campbell Jones Cage is a fictional appearing in published. The character was created by writer and artist, and she first appeared in #1 (November 2001), a. Within the context of Marvel's, Jones is a former superhero who becomes the owner and sole employee of Alias Private Investigations. Bendis originally envisioned the series centered on and only decided to create Jones once he noticed that the main character had a distinct voice and background that differentiated her from Drew. Jones has since starred in three, Alias, and. Alias ran for 28 issues before ending in 2004, while The Pulse ran for 14 issues from April 2004 to May 2006. Jessica Jones debuted in October 2016.

She became a member of the, alongside her husband, during Marvel's 2010 campaign. She has used various aliases throughout her history, including Jewel, Knightress, and Power Woman. The character has been adapted into various forms of media outside of comic books; in 2015, she made her live-action debut in the with the television series, and in 2017's, portrayed. Contents. Creation Jessica Jones debuted in the series Alias, in November 2001.

The character and series were created by writer and artist. Alias ran for 28 issues from 2001 to 2004, with most covers drawn. After the end of the series, Jones and other characters from the series moved to Bendis' subsequent series,.

In a 2005 interview, Bendis claimed: 'Originally, Alias was going to star, but it became something else entirely. Which is good, because had we used Jessica, it would have been off continuity and bad storytelling.' Previously, Bendis commented, 'I was at one time toying with doing Jessica Drew in Alias because she has the best hair of any superhero in comics, but this book is entirely different than what that idea was to be.' By the time Bendis was actively developing the title, Jones was his central character, one with a distinct background and voice from Drew's. Jessica Jones appeared as a regular character throughout the 2010–2013 series, from issue #1 (August 2010) through its final issue #34 (January 2013).

In a, Bendis expressed his desire to incorporate Jones into the imprint. In #106, she appears as a senior at 's school. Fictional character biography Origin Midtown High student Jessica Campbell goes to school with, on whom she has a crush and is present when he is bitten by the irradiated which gives him radioactive powers. Jessica's father receives tickets for from his boss. On the way home, their car collides with a military convoy carrying radioactive chemicals.

Her family is killed, and she spends several months in a coma. Upon waking, she is placed in an orphanage and adopted by the Jones family. Jessica later discovers that her radiation exposure granted her super strength, limited invulnerability, and flight. Jessica's adoptive parents re-enroll her at Midtown High, where she is ostracized by her classmates, especially. Peter Parker (who has since become ) senses in Jessica a kindred spirit—someone who has also lost her family due to a tragic circumstance. Jessica mistakes his kind attention for pity and lashes out at him.

She later witnesses a fight between Spider-Man and the villain in her school. This inspires her to use her abilities for positive ends. Early years.

Main article: As Jewel, Jones has a fairly uneventful superhero career until she intervenes in a disturbance at a restaurant involving Zebediah Killgrave, the. Killgrave uses his power of to place Jones under his command, psychologically torturing her and forcing her to aid his criminal schemes.

After Killgrave sends her to kill at the, Jones is rescued by, the only Avenger who actually knows her. Jones undergoes psychic therapy with of the, who places a special mental command in Jones's subconscious to protect her from further mind control. During this time, Jones develops a brief romantic relationship with S.H.I.E.L.D. Due to the traumatic violation of her mind by Killgrave and the fact that she was barely noticed missing for eight months, a demoralized and depressed Jones gives up her costumed superhero life.

She briefly adopts a darker identity as the Knightress and interrupts a crime meeting between the and a, through which she meets up with fellow superhero. After defeating the Owl, she and Cage develop a lasting friendship. No longer a superhero, Jones opens a private detective agency. Longtime friend Carol Danvers sets Jones up with Scott Lang (the second ), and the two date for several months. She also has an off-and-on affair with Cage.

Killgrave, still obsessed with Jones, escapes from high-security incarceration, but with the mental defenses Grey gave her, Jones breaks his control and subsequently beats him to death. Later, Cage and Jones admit their feelings for each other, and after she becomes pregnant with their child, they begin a committed relationship.

The Pulse and Young Avengers. Main article: Jones takes a leave from the detective business and joins the staff of the as a superhero correspondent and consultant, becoming a main character of the comic book, and a contributor to the same-name fictional newspaper supplement within.

A pregnant Jones is attacked by the after the Bugle reported that he was secretly industrialist Norman Osborn. In response, Cage retaliates and Osborn is irrevocably exposed as the Goblin upon his defeat and incarceration.

Jones quits her job with the Bugle after publisher uses the paper to smear the. Jones and Cage are living together when she gives birth to their child, whom they name after Luke's best friend,. Cage and Jones marry in New Avengers Annual #1.

Jones appears as a supporting character in until the series ended. She returns in Avengers: The Children's Crusade #6 in which she, and attempted to defuse the situation between the Avengers and X-Men who were fighting over who was to punish the. She helps fight and is present when Stature and the are killed.

She is seen hugging in the final panel when the team is declared full-fledged Avengers by Captain America. 'Civil War', 'Secret Invasion' and 'Dark Reign' In Marvel's 2006–2007 crossover storyline ', Jones and Cage reject and 's offer to join the Superhuman Registration Act. As part of the New Avengers, Jones moved into 's, but after an attack involving the demonic villain the, Jones, shaken by the experience and desperate to protect her child, left the New Avengers and registered for the Superhuman Registration Act, ending her relationship with Luke Cage for the time being. Jones is among the heroes who emerge from the crashed Skrull ship wearing her Jewel costume, although it is later revealed this Jones was a Skrull. The real Jessica Jones appears in Secret Invasion #7, in which she joins in the heroes' fight against the Skrulls and was able to be reunited with her husband. After the Skrull surrender, the Skrull impersonating Jarvis disappears with their daughter, leaving Jessica desperate. Jessica is unaware that Luke has asked Norman Osborn for help in their search for Danielle.

Osborn helped Luke recover Danielle, and Luke gave the baby back to Jessica. Spider-Man revealed himself as Peter Parker to the New Avengers, leaving Jones shocked to see that her former classmate is Spider-Man. She then tells Peter of her former crush on him, only to find out that he did not recognize her all this time, let alone remember her name, only remembering her as 'Coma Girl', upsetting her. She later assists the Avengers in rescuing Clint after being captured by Norman Osborn.

Jessica reveals that she was inspired to become a superheroine after witnessing an early battle between Spider-Man and the. Peter then tries to convince Jessica to return to the life of a superhero, suggesting that she could provide a better example for her daughter by going into action as a hero rather than simply telling her daughter about her old career. Recent years. Jessica Jones as the titular character of her own comic book series. Artwork for the cover of 1 (October 2016 ). Art. (Variant cover art) During the storylines of Marvel's 2010 ' branding campaign, Jessica, returned to her costumed identity of Jewel, became a member of the New Avengers when the title relaunched in June 2010. She and Luke began searching for a nanny, interviewing characters featured from other comics set in the.

Ultimately, was chosen as Danielle's nanny. In New Avengers #8, Jessica took the name Power Woman to both honor her husband, Power Man (Luke Cage), and to be a role model for their daughter. However following several incidents revolving around Thule Society attacking Avengers Mansion, and Norman Osborn's threat, Jessica quit the team and went into hiding, realizing that it was too dangerous for Danielle to remain in Avengers Mansion due to the numerous potential threats. Jessica later appeared as an ally to the Mighty Avengers team formed by Luke Cage.

Jessica and Danielle lived in the apartment of the Gem Theater, which was serving as the Mighty Avenger's base of operations. She and Luke would later be confronted by the Superior Spider-Man and his Spider Robots, who offered her a place on a different type of Avengers team that was to be run by him. Jessica swiftly found a babysitter for her child and refused before delivering a powerful punch to Spider-Man's face for his threat. The group was later backed up by She-Hulk and she and Jessica decided to go out for coffee. Jessica and Luke would later switch apartments with an old friend of Luke's named David Griffiths.

While moving in, Jessica spoke to the about what it's like to raise a child of superheroes and expressed both her support and annoyance at her husband's choice to start another team of Avengers. During the ' storyline, Jessica Jones became a member of the Defenders alongside Daredevil, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage.

They alongside Cloak and Dagger, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Woman fought the Army of Evil during Hydra's rise to power where they were defeated by Nitro. Jessica Jones and those with him were trapped in the dome by when his powers were enhanced by using the.

In October 2016, a new ongoing series featuring the character, titled, began. In 2017, a new onging series was launched, featuring Jessica as one of the main characters. Powers and abilities After coming into contact with experimental chemicals and spending some time in a coma, Jessica emerged with superhuman abilities. She possesses superhuman strength, as well as flight, and can block mind control. She shows the capacity to lift a two-ton police car with little effort.

Her strength allowed her to lift up a giant-sized Goliath by the nostrils and toss him a short distance, break Atlas' nose, and render her fellow superheroine Jessica Drew unconscious with a single punch to the face. She later withstood being punched by a human on Mutant-Growth Hormone and suffered only mild bruising and a bloody nose and was able to recover in moments after being shocked by Jessica Drew's venom blasts. Despite this resistance to harm, Jessica suffered severe injuries, including a damaged spine and neck, a detached retina, and a broken nose after being attacked by both the Vision and Iron Man. Jessica is also able to fly, and while she was able to fly quite well during her early years as a heroine, she has admitted that her flying ability degenerated while she was no longer an active hero. She has since displayed improved flying ability after joining the New Avengers. After her ordeal at the hands of the Purple Man, Jessica was given a degree of psionic protection by of the X-Men. This psionic protection was sufficient to protect Jessica against a second attack by the Purple Man, though she had to 'trigger' this resistance on her own.

In addition to her superhuman powers, Jessica is a skilled detective and investigative journalist. Other versions. Ultimate Jessica Jones.

Multiple versions of Jessica Jones have appeared in. In the 2005 ', Jessica was apparently dating Scott Lang. In, Jones accepted Captain America's offer to work for. Perceiving that something was amiss with Wanda Maximoff (the Scarlet Witch), she alerted the other Avengers, ensuring that the catastrophic events depicted in ' and ' would never occur. Jessica married. In, Jones appeared as a senior student in the school attended. She was the executive producer of the school's television network.

She later became jealous of 's superior film skills. She attempted to deduce Spider-Man's secret identity for the school newspaper and may have been suspicious about Peter Parker. Later on after the events of, she claimed to have abandoned her attempts to figure out who Spider-Man was and instead wanted to focus on his heroics. In, Jessica was a student at Mary-Jane's high school and was a former friend of Mary Jane until she became a goth.

Mary-Jane spent more time with Jessica after her breakup with Ned Leeds and became more goth-like until Jessica told Mary Jane it wasn't her. In other media Television. As Jessica Jones in the original series,. On November 20, 2015, was released on, with the title character portrayed by as an adult and by Elizabeth Cappuccino as a teenager. As a child, she was in a car accident that killed her parents and put her in a coma. After she regained consciousness, Jessica was legally adopted by talent agent Dorothy Walker, therefore becoming the adopted sister of.

As an adult, Jessica crosses paths with and spends a year under his control, snapping out of it after she kills 's wife Reva Connors on Kilgrave's orders. She suffers from as a result of what Kilgrave did to her, and drinks to excess to numb her pain and guilt. Her Jewel costume from the comics appears briefly in the fifth episode of season 1, although she refuses to wear it and rejects Trish's suggestion of Jewel as an alias, saying 'Jewel is a 's name, a really slutty stripper. And if I wear that thing you're going to have to call me Camel Toe.' In the eighth episode of, indirectly mentions to her brother that she hired Jessica in the past to take compromising pictures of members on the Rand Enterprises board of directors. Ritter reprised her role in, a 2017 crossover miniseries.

Video games. Jessica Jones appears in a series of Marvel mobile and video games, such as Marvel: War of Heroes, and. Her appearance in all of them is based off the Netflix version. A teenage version of Jones appears in, where she is voiced.

She initially resembles her Netflix counterpart but gains the Jewel costume once she is upgraded. Jones appears in, where she is voiced by and.

Jones a playable character in, voiced. This version is based on her Jewel variant. Her mission requires the player to find, and, who have applied to be a potential nanny for Danielle. She appears as a playable character in. References.

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Flora Wellman Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from, an early settler in the. Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died.

In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and, claiming to channel the spirit of a chief,. Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe London's father was William Chaney. Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San Francisco when she became pregnant. Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown. Most civil records were destroyed by the extensive fires that followed the; nobody knows what name appeared on her son's birth certificate. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his 'wife'; he also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself 'Florence Wellman Chaney'.

According to Flora Wellman's account, as recorded in the of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded that she have an. When she refused, he disclaimed responsibility for the child.

In desperation, she shot herself. She was not seriously wounded, but she was temporarily deranged. After giving birth, Flora turned the baby over for care to Virginia Prentiss, an African-American woman and former slave. She was a major maternal figure throughout London's life.

Late in 1876, Flora Wellman married John London, a partially disabled veteran, and brought her baby John, later known as Jack, to live with the newly married couple. The family moved around the before settling in, where London completed public. In 1897, when he was 21 and a student at the, London searched for and read the newspaper accounts of his mother's attempt and the name of his biological father. He wrote to William Chaney, then living in.

Chaney responded that he could not be London's father because he was impotent; he casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men and averred that she had slandered him when she said he insisted on an abortion. Chaney concluded by saying that he was more to be pitied than London. London was devastated by his father's letter; in the months following, he quit school at Berkeley and went to the during the gold rush boom. London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, 1885 London was born near Third and Brannan Streets in. The house burned down in the fire after the; the placed a plaque at the site in 1953. Although the family was working class, it was not as impoverished as London's later accounts claimed.

London was largely self-educated. In 1885, London found and read 's long novel Signa. He credited this as the seed of his literary success.

In 1886, he went to the and found a sympathetic librarian, who encouraged his learning. (She later became California's first and an important figure in the San Francisco literary community). In 1889, London began working 12 to 18 hours a day at Hickmott's Cannery. Seeking a way out, he borrowed money from his foster mother Virginia Prentiss, bought the Razzle-Dazzle from an named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate.

In his memoir, he claims also to have stolen French Frank's mistress Mamie. After a few months, his sloop became damaged beyond repair. London hired on as a member of the. In 1893, he signed on to the Sophie Sutherland, bound for the coast of Japan.

When he returned, the country was in the grip of the and was swept by labor unrest. After grueling jobs in a and a street-railway power plant, London joined and began his career as a tramp. In 1894, he spent 30 days for vagrancy in the Penitentiary at, New York. In The Road, he wrote: Man-handling was merely one of the very minor unprintable horrors of the Erie County Pen. I say 'unprintable'; and in justice I must also say undescribable. They were unthinkable to me until I saw them, and I was no spring chicken in the ways of the world and the awful abysses of human degradation. It would take a deep plummet to reach bottom in the Erie County Pen, and I do but skim lightly and facetiously the surface of things as I there saw them.

After many experiences as a hobo and a sailor, he returned to Oakland and attended. He contributed a number of articles to the high school's magazine, The Aegis. His first published work was 'Typhoon off the Coast of Japan', an account of his sailing experiences. Jack London studying at Heinold's First and Last Chance in 1886 As a schoolboy, London often studied at, a port-side bar in Oakland. At 17, he confessed to the bar's owner, John Heinold, his desire to attend university and pursue a career as a writer.

Heinold lent London tuition money to attend college. London desperately wanted to attend the. In 1896, after a summer of intense studying to pass certification exams, he was admitted. Financial circumstances forced him to leave in 1897 and he never graduated.

No evidence suggests that London wrote for student publications while studying at Berkeley. Heinold's First and Last Chance, 'Jack London's Rendezvous' While at Berkeley, London continued to study and spend time at Heinold's saloon, where he was introduced to the sailors and adventurers who would influence his writing. In his autobiographical novel, London mentioned the pub's likeness seventeen times. Heinold's was the place where London met Alexander McLean, a captain known for his cruelty at sea.

London based his protagonist Wolf Larsen, in the novel, on McLean. Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon is now unofficially named Jack London's Rendezvous in his honor. Gold rush and first success. Jack London, and on the beach at, California In early 1903, London sold The Call of the Wild to for $750, and the book rights to for $2,000. Macmillan's promotional campaign propelled it to swift success. While living at his rented villa on in Oakland, CA., London met poet; in time they became best friends.

In 1902, Sterling helped London find a home closer to his own in nearby. In his letters London addressed Sterling as 'Greek', owing to Sterling's and classical profile, and he signed them as 'Wolf'. London was later to depict Sterling as Russ Brissenden in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1910) and as Mark Hall in (1913). In later life London indulged his wide-ranging interests by accumulating a personal library of 15,000 volumes. He referred to his books as 'the tools of my trade'.

First marriage (1900–04). Bessie Maddern London and daughters, Joan and Becky London married Elizabeth 'Bessie' Maddern on April 7, 1900, the same day The Son of the Wolf was published.

Bess had been part of his circle of friends for a number of years. She was related to stage actresses and. Stasz says, 'Both acknowledged publicly that they were not marrying out of love, but from friendship and a belief that they would produce sturdy children.' Kingman says, 'they were comfortable together.

Jack had made it clear to Bessie that he did not love her, but that he liked her enough to make a successful marriage.' During the marriage, London continued his friendship with, co-authoring, an contrasting two philosophies of love. Anna, writing 'Dane Kempton's' letters, arguing for a romantic view of marriage, while London, writing 'Herbert Wace's' letters, argued for a scientific view, based on and. In the novel, his fictional character contrasted two women he had known.

London's pet name for Bess was 'Mother-Girl' and Bess's for London was 'Daddy-Boy'. Their first child, Joan, was born on January 15, 1901 and their second, Bessie (later called Becky), on October 20, 1902. Both children were born in, California. Here London wrote one of his most celebrated works,. While London had pride in his children, the marriage was strained.

Kingman says that by 1903, the couple were close to separation as they were 'extremely incompatible'. 'Jack was still so kind and gentle with Bessie that when Cloudsley Johns was a house guest in February 1903 he didn't suspect a breakup of their marriage.' London reportedly complained to friends Joseph Noel and George Sterling: Bessie is devoted to purity. When I tell her morality is only evidence of low blood pressure, she hates me. She'd sell me and the children out for her damned purity. It's terrible.

Every time I come back after being away from home for a night she won't let me be in the same room with her if she can help it. Stasz writes that these were 'code words for Bess's fear that Jack was consorting with prostitutes and might bring home.' On July 24, 1903, London told Bessie he was leaving and moved out. During 1904, London and Bess negotiated the terms of a divorce, and the decree was granted on November 11, 1904.

War correspondent (1904) London accepted an assignment of the to cover the in early 1904, arriving in on January 25, 1904. He was arrested by Japanese authorities in, but released through the intervention of American ambassador. After travelling to, he was again arrested by Japanese authorizes for straying too close to the border with without official permission, and was sent back to. Released again, London was permitted to travel with the to the border, and to observe the. London asked, the owner of the San Francisco Examiner, to be allowed to transfer to the, where he felt that restrictions on his reporting and his movements would be less severe. However, before this could be arranged, he was arrested for a third time in four months, this time for assaulting his Japanese assistants, whom he accused of stealing the fodder for his horse.

Released through the personal intervention of President, London departed the front in June 1904. Bohemian Club.

London (right) at the with his friends and; a painting parodies his story On August 18, 1904, London went with his close friend, the poet, to 'Summer High Jinks' at the. London was elected to honorary membership in the and took part in many activities. Other noted members of the Bohemian Club during this time includedand. Beginning in December 1914, London worked on The Acorn Planter, A California Forest Play, to be performed as one of the, but it was never selected. It was described as too difficult to set to music. London published The Acorn Planter in 1916.

Second marriage. Jack and Charmian London (c.

1915) at After divorcing Maddern, London married in 1905. London was introduced to Kittredge by his MacMillan publisher, while Kittredge served as Brett's secretary. Biographer Russ Kingman called Charmian 'Jack's soul-mate, always at his side, and a perfect match.' Their time together included numerous trips, including a 1907 cruise on the yacht to and Australia. Many of London's stories are based on his visits to Hawaii, the last one for 10 months beginning in December 1915. The couple also visited, Nevada, in 1907, where they were guests of the Bond brothers, London's Dawson City landlords. The Bond brothers were working in Nevada as mining engineers.

London had contrasted the concepts of the 'Mother Woman' and the 'Mate Woman' in The Kempton-Wace Letters. His pet name for Bess had been 'Mother-Girl;' his pet name for Charmian was 'Mate-Woman.' Charmian's aunt and foster mother, a disciple of, had raised her without prudishness. Every biographer alludes to Charmian's uninhibited sexuality. The Snark in Australia, 1921 Joseph Noel calls the events from 1903 to 1905 'a domestic drama that would have intrigued the pen of an. London's had comedy relief in it and a sort of easy-going romance.'

In broad outline, London was restless in his first marriage, sought extramarital sexual affairs, and found, in Charmian Kittredge, not only a sexually active and adventurous partner, but his future life-companion. They attempted to have children; one child died at birth, and another pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. The old Winery Cottage, where London died (in the left ) on November 22, 1916 In 1905, London purchased a 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) ranch in, California, on the eastern slope of, for $26,450.

He wrote: 'Next to my wife, the ranch is the dearest thing in the world to me.' He desperately wanted the ranch to become a successful business enterprise.

Writing, always a commercial enterprise with London, now became even more a means to an end: 'I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.' London in 1914 Stasz writes that London 'had taken fully to heart the vision, expressed in his fiction, of the land as the closest earthly version of. He educated himself through the study of agricultural manuals and scientific tomes. He conceived of a system of ranching that today would be praised for its.' He was proud to own the first concrete in California, a circular that he designed.

He hoped to adapt the wisdom of Asian to the United States. He hired both Italian and Chinese stonemasons, whose distinctly different styles are obvious. The ranch was an economic failure. Sympathetic observers such as Stasz treat his projects as potentially feasible, and ascribe their failure to bad luck or to being ahead of their time. Unsympathetic historians such as suggest that he was a bad manager, distracted by other concerns and impaired by his.

Starr notes that London was absent from his ranch about six months a year between 1910 and 1916, and says, 'He liked the show of managerial power, but not grinding attention to detail. London's workers laughed at his efforts to play big-time rancher and considered the operation a rich man's hobby.' London spent $80,000 ($2,130,000 in current value) to build a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2) stone mansion called on the property.

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Just as the mansion was nearing completion, two weeks before the Londons planned to move in, it was destroyed by fire. London's last visit to Hawaii, beginning in December 1915, lasted eight months. He met with, and many others, before returning to his ranch in July 1916.

He was suffering from, but he continued to work. The ranch (abutting stone remnants of Wolf House) is now a and is protected in. Animal activism London witnessed animal cruelty in the training of circus animals, and his subsequent novels Jerry of the Islands and Michael, Brother of Jerry included a foreword entreating the public to become more informed about this practice. In 1918, the and the American Humane Education Society teamed up to create the Jack London Club, which sought to inform the public about cruelty to circus animals and encourage them to protest this establishment.

Support from Club members led to a temporary cessation of trained animal acts at in 1925. London in his office, 1916 London was vulnerable to accusations of plagiarism, both because he was such a conspicuous, prolific, and successful writer and because of his methods of working.

He wrote in a letter to Elwyn Hoffman, 'expression, you see—with me—is far easier than invention.' He purchased plots and novels from the young and used incidents from newspaper clippings as writing material. In July 1901, two pieces of fiction appeared within the same month: London's ', in the San Francisco Argonaut, and ' 'The Passing of Cock-eye Blacklock', in. Newspapers showed the similarities between the stories, which London said were 'quite different in manner of treatment, but patently the same in foundation and motive.' London explained both writers based their stories on the same newspaper account. A year later, it was discovered that Charles Forrest McLean had published a fictional story also based on the same incident. Egerton Ryerson Young claimed (1903) was taken from Young's book (1902).

London acknowledged using it as a source and claimed to have written a letter to Young thanking him. In 1906, the published 'deadly parallel' columns showing eighteen passages from London's short story 'Love of Life' side by side with similar passages from a nonfiction article by and, titled 'Lost in the Land of the Midnight Sun'.

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London noted the World did not accuse him of 'plagiarism', but only of 'identity of time and situation', to which he defiantly 'pled guilty'. The most serious charge of plagiarism was based on London's 'The Bishop's Vision', Chapter 7 of his novel (1908).

The chapter is nearly identical to an ironic essay that published in 1901, titled 'The Bishop of London and Public Morality'. Harris was incensed and suggested he should receive 1/60th of the royalties from The Iron Heel, the disputed material constituting about that fraction of the whole novel. London insisted he had clipped a reprint of the article, which had appeared in an American newspaper, and believed it to be a genuine speech delivered by the. Views Atheism London was an. He is quoted as saying, 'I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.'

Socialism London wrote from a socialist viewpoint, which is evident in his novel. Neither a theorist nor an intellectual socialist, London's socialism grew out of his life experience. As London explained in his essay, 'How I Became a Socialist', his views were influenced by his experience with people at the bottom of the social pit. His optimism and individualism faded, and he vowed never to do more hard physical work than necessary. He wrote that his individualism was hammered out of him, and he was politically reborn.

He often closed his letters 'Yours for the Revolution.' London joined the in April 1896. In the same year, the San Francisco Chronicle published a story about the twenty-year-old London giving nightly speeches in Oakland's, an activity he was arrested for a year later. In 1901, he left the Socialist Labor Party and joined the new. He ran unsuccessfully as the high-profile Socialist nominee for mayor of Oakland in 1901 (receiving 245 votes) and 1905 (improving to 981 votes), toured the country lecturing on socialism in 1906, and published two collections of essays about socialism: The War of the Classes (1905) and Revolution, and other Essays (1906).

Stasz notes that 'London regarded the as a welcome addition to the cause, although he never joined them in going so far as to recommend sabotage.' Stasz mentions a personal meeting between London and in 1912. In his late (1913) book The Cruise of the Snark, London writes about appeals to him for membership of the Snark's crew from office workers and other 'toilers' who longed for escape from the cities, and of being cheated by workmen. In his Glen Ellen ranch years, London felt some ambivalence toward socialism and complained about the 'inefficient Italian labourers' in his employ. In 1916, he resigned from the Glen Ellen chapter of the Socialist Party, but stated emphatically he did so 'because of its lack of fire and fight, and its loss of emphasis on the class struggle.' In an unflattering portrait of London's ranch days, California cultural historian refers to this period as 'post-socialist' and says '.

London was more bored by the class struggle than he cared to admit.' Racial views. Jeffries (left) vs. Johnson, 1910 London shared common concerns among European Americans in California about, described as '; he used the latter term as the title of a 1904 essay. This theme was also the subject of a story he wrote in 1910 called '. Presented as an historical essay set in the future, the story narrates events between 1976 and 1987, in which China, with an ever-increasing population, is taking over and colonizing its neighbors with the intention of taking over the entire Earth. The western nations respond with and bombard China with dozens of the most infectious diseases.

On his fears about China, he admits, 'it must be taken into consideration that the above postulate is itself a product of Western race-egotism, urged by our belief in our own righteousness and fostered by a faith in ourselves which may be as erroneous as are most fond race fancies.' By contrast, many of London's short stories are notable for their empathetic portrayal of Mexican ('The Mexican'), Asian ('The Chinago'), and Hawaiian ('Koolau the Leper') characters.

London's war correspondence from the, as well as his unfinished novel Cherry, show he admired much about Japanese customs and capabilities. London's writings have been popular among the Japanese, who believe he portrayed them positively. In 'Koolau the Leper', London describes Koolau, who is a Hawaiian leper—and thus a very different sort of 'superman' than Martin Eden—and who fights off an entire cavalry troop to elude capture, as 'indomitable spiritually—a.

Magnificent rebel'. This character is based on Hawaiian leper, who in 1893 from forces of the in the. An amateur boxer and avid boxing fan, London reported on the 1910 Johnson-Jeffries fight, in which the black boxer vanquished, known as the 'Great White Hope'. In 1908, London had reported on an earlier fight of Johnson's, contrasting the black boxer's coolness and intellectual style, with the apelike appearance and fighting style of his Canadian opponent,: 'what.

won on Saturday was bigness, coolness, quickness, cleverness, and vast physical superiority. Because a white man wishes a white man to win, this should not prevent him from giving absolute credit to the best man, even when that best man was black. All hail to Johnson.' London wrote that Johnson was 'superb. He was impregnable. As inaccessible as.'

Those who defend London against charges of racism cite the letter he wrote to the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly in 1913: In reply to yours of August 16, 1913. First of all, I should say by stopping the stupid newspaper from always fomenting race prejudice. This of course, being impossible, I would say, next, by educating the people of Japan so that they will be too intelligently tolerant to respond to any call to race prejudice. And, finally, by realizing, in industry and government, of socialism—which last word is merely a word that stands for the actual application of in the affairs of men of the theory of the Brotherhood of Man.

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In the meantime the nations and races are only unruly boys who have not yet grown to the stature of men. So we must expect them to do unruly and boisterous things at times. And, just as boys grow up, so the races of mankind will grow up and laugh when they look back upon their childish quarrels. In 1996, after the, renamed a street in honor of London, protests over London's alleged racism forced the city to change the name of 'Jack London Boulevard' back to 'Two-mile Hill'. Works Short stories.

London writing, 1905 London's most famous novels are, and. In a letter dated Dec 27, 1901, London's Macmillan publisher said 'he believed Jack's fiction represented 'the very best kind of work' done in America.' Critic called 'a beautiful prose poem'; editor Franklin Walker said that it 'belongs on a shelf with and '; and novelist called it 'a mordant parable. His masterpiece.' The historian Dale L.

Walker commented: Jack London was an uncomfortable novelist, that form too long for his natural impatience and the quickness of his mind. His novels, even the best of them, are hugely flawed. Some critics have said that his novels are episodic and resemble linked short stories. Walker writes:, that magnificent experiment, is actually a series of short stories connected by a unifying device. Smoke Bellew is a series of stories bound together in a novel-like form by their reappearing protagonist, Kit Bellew; and.

Is a synoptic series of short episodes. Said of that 'the great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen. The hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime.' However, he noted, 'The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful.' Is interesting as an example of a novel that anticipates and influenced 's.

London's socialist politics are explicitly on display here. The Iron Heel meets the contemporary definition of. (1915) is also science fiction.

Apocrypha Jack London Credo London's, Irving Shepard, quoted a Jack London Credo in an introduction to a 1956 collection of London stories. I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist.

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. The biographer Stasz notes that the passage 'has many marks of London's style' but the only line that could be safely attributed to London was the first. The words Shepard quoted were from a story in the San Francisco Bulletin, December 2, 1916 by journalist Ernest J. Hopkins, who visited the ranch just weeks before London's death. Stasz notes 'Even more so than today journalists' quotes were unreliable or even sheer inventions' and says no direct source in London's writings has been found.

However, at least one line, according to Stasz, is authentic, being referenced by London, and written in his own hand, in the autograph book of Australian suffragette. Dear Miss Goldstein:– Seven years ago I wrote you that I'd rather be ashes than dust. I still subscribe to that sentiment. Sincerely yours, Jack London Jan.

13, 1909 Furthermore, in his short story 'By The Turtles of Tasman', a character, defending her ne'er-do-well grasshopperish father to her antlike uncle, says: '. My father has been a king. He has lived. Have you lived merely to live? Are you afraid to die? I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

When you are dust, my father will be ashes.' 'The Scab' A short diatribe on 'The ' is often quoted within the U.S. Labor movement and frequently attributed to London.

It opens: After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and Angels weep in Heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.' In 1913 and 1914, a number of newspapers printed the first three sentences with varying terms used instead of 'scab', such as 'knocker', 'stool pigeon' or 'scandal monger'. This passage as given above was the subject of a 1974 Supreme Court case, (1974), in which Justice referred to it as 'a well-known piece of trade union literature, generally attributed to author Jack London'. A union newsletter had published a 'list of scabs,' which was granted to be factual and therefore not libelous, but then went on to quote the passage as the 'definition of a scab'.

The case turned on the question of whether the 'definition' was defamatory. The court ruled that 'Jack London's.

'definition of a scab' is merely rhetorical hyperbole, a lusty and imaginative expression of the contempt felt by union members towards those who refuse to join', and as such was not libelous and was protected under the First Amendment. Despite being frequently attributed to London, the passage does not appear at all in the extensive collection of his writings at 's website. However, in his book The War of the Classes he published a 1903 speech entitled 'The Scab', which gave a much more balanced view of the topic: To strike at a man's food and shelter is to strike at his life; and in a society organized on a tooth-and-nail basis, such an act, performed though it may be under the guise of generosity, is none the less menacing and terrible. It is for this reason that a laborer is so fiercely hostile to another laborer who offers to work for less pay or longer hours. To hold his place, (which is to live), he must offset this offer by another equally liberal, which is equivalent to giving away somewhat from the food and shelter he enjoys. When a striker kills with a brick the man who has taken his place, he has no sense of wrong-doing. In the deepest holds of his being, though he does not reason the impulse, he has an ethical sanction.

He feels dimly that he has justification, just as the home-defending Boer felt, though more sharply, with each bullet he fired at the invading English. Behind every brick thrown by a striker is the selfish will 'to live' of himself, and the slightly altruistic will 'to live' of his family. The family group came into the world before the State group, and society, being still on the primitive basis of tooth and nail, the will 'to live' of the State is not so compelling to the striker as is the will 'to live' of his family and himself.

The laborer who gives more time or strength or skill for the same wage than another, or equal time or strength or skill for a less wage, is a scab. The generousness on his part is hurtful to his fellow-laborers, for it compels them to an equal generousness which is not to their liking, and which gives them less of food and shelter. But a word may be said for the scab. Just as his act makes his rivals compulsorily generous, so do they, by fortune of birth and training, make compulsory his act of generousness. Nobody desires to scab, to give most for least.

The ambition of every individual is quite the opposite, to give least for most; and, as a result, living in a tooth-and-nail society, battle royal is waged by the ambitious individuals. But in its most salient aspect, that of the struggle over the division of the joint product, it is no longer a battle between individuals, but between groups of individuals. Capital and labor apply themselves to raw material, make something useful out of it, add to its value, and then proceed to quarrel over the division of the added value. Neither cares to give most for least.

Each is intent on giving less than the other and on receiving more. Publications Source unless otherwise specified.