Levy, Joseph Langley

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LEVY, JOSEPH LANGLEY

LEVY, JOSEPH LANGLEY (1870–1945), British journalist, born in Liverpool. Levy took up journalism after writing a series of articles on Liverpool Jewry in 1899 for the Liverpool Review, of which he became editor in 1902. He joined the London Daily Express in 1905, and was art critic for three London papers. In 1910 he went to South Africa to become editor of the Johannesburg Sunday Times, which under his editorship achieved the largest circulation in the country. He wrote novels and short stories. His daughter, doris langley moore (1902–1989), who lived chiefly in England, founded the Costume Museum in Bath and was a well-known novelist and biographer.

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