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Dorothy Whipple
Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (26 February 1893 – 14 September 1966) was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books. Her work gained popularity between the world wars and again in the 2000s. Personal life Dorothy Stirrup was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, and had a happy childhood as one of several children of a local architect. Her close friend George Owen having been killed in the first week of the war, she worked for three years as the secretary to Henry Whipple, a widowed educational administrator 24 years her senior. She married him in 1917. Their life together was mostly spent in Nottingham. She returned to Blackburn after his death in 1958 and died there in 1966. Overview Described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th Century" by J. B. Priestley, her work enjoyed a period of great popularity between the wars, two of her novels being made into feature films, ''They Were Sisters'' (1945) and '' They Knew Mr. Knight'' ( 1946). While the popularity of Whipple's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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High Wages
''High Wages'' is a 1930 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. One of her first novels, it follows a young woman who rises from being a worker in a dress shop to owning her own business in the years after the First World War. It was an instant commercial success and established Whipple as a popular writer over the following two decades.Plock p.92 As part of a revival of interest in her work, it was republished by Persephone Books ''Persephone Books'' is an independent publisher based in Bath, England. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints works largely by women writers of the late 19th and 20th century, though a few books by men are included. Th ... in 2009. References Bibliography * Boyiopoulos, Kostas, Patterson, Anthony and Sandy, Mark (ed.) ''Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences''. Routledge, 2019. * Plock, Vike Martina. ''Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers''. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 In Literature
Events from the year 1953 in literature . Events *January 5 – '' Waiting For Godot'', a play by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, has its first public stage performance, in French as ''En attendant Godot'', at the in Paris. Beckett's novel '' The Unnamable'' is also published in French this year. * January 22 – ''The Crucible'', a historical drama by Arthur Miller written as an allegory of McCarthyism, opens on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre. * February 19 – The State of Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. * April 13 – The face of popular literature changes with the publication of Ian Fleming's novel '' Casino Royale'', introducing the British spy character James Bond. *May – The semi-autobiographical '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'' by James Baldwin is published. In 2001, it will be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editors of the American Modern Library. *June 17 – Bert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someone At A Distance
''Someone at a Distance'' is a 1953 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. A French au pair ruthlessly sets out to seduce the husband of her employer and steal him away from her. It was the final novel of Whipple who had been a popular writer in the 1930s and 1940s. It was republished in 1999 by Persephone Books ''Persephone Books'' is an independent publisher based in Bath, England. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints works largely by women writers of the late 19th and 20th century, though a few books by men are included. Th .... A dramatization was broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2022. References Bibliography * Lethbridge, Lucy. ''Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. * Sponenberg, Ashlie. ''Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950''. Springer, 2006. * Turner, Nick. ''Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1950. Events *January 19 – Isaac Asimov's first full-length novel, ''Pebble in the Sky'', is published in the United States by Doubleday. *January 26 – For the film noir ''Gun Crazy'', released on this day in the United States, co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed as Millard Kaufman, due to the former's inclusion on the Hollywood blacklist. This year Trumbo serves 11 months in prison for Contempt of Congress, in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky. *February – Jack Kerouac has his first novel, ''The Town and the City'', published in the United States. *April 8 – J. D. Salinger's wartime short story " For Esmé — with Love and Squalor" is published in ''The New Yorker''. *May 11 – Eugène Ionesco's first play, ''The Bald Soprano'' is first performed, in Paris. *September 10 – George Bernard Shaw is taken to hospital after fracturing a hip falling out of a tree he was pruning. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1949. Events *January 11 – Bertolt Brecht's play ''Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder)'', 1939, is first performed in Germany, at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin, with his wife Helene Weigel in the title role and staged with his ''Verfremdungseffekt'' ("distancing effect"). This marks the origin of the Berliner Ensemble. *January 19 – The Poe Toaster first appears, at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. *January 31 – ''Late Night Serial'', a pilot for the U.K. radio series ''Book at Bedtime'', begins on the BBC Light Programme with a reading of John Buchan's novel ''The Three Hostages''. *February – Théâtre du Rideau Vert, the first professional French-language theatre in Canada, gives its first performance. *February 10 – Arthur Miller's tragedy ''Death of a Salesman'' opens at the Morosco Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Lee J. Cobb in the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 In Literature
Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister of Albania, prime minister. * January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, French provisional government. * January 17 - The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1943. Events *January 4 – Thomas Mann completes ''Joseph der Ernährer'' (Joseph the Provider) in California, the last of his ''Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder)'' tetralogy, on which he began in December 1926. *February 4 – The première of Bertolt Brecht's ''The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan)'' takes place at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland, with Leonard Steckel directing. *March – The self-illustrated children's novella ''The Little Prince'' by the exiled French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the all-time best-selling book originated in French, is published in New York. *May – A strongly antisemitic production of Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice'' is staged at the Burgtheater in Vienna, with Werner Krauss as Shylock. *June 30 – Having transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy and served eight days of active ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Were Sisters (novel)
''They Were Sisters'' is a 1943 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. Three sisters marry shortly after the First World War and experience wildly differing experiences of family life over the next twenty years. Film adaptation In 1945 it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray and Anne Crawford Imelda Anne Crawford (22 November 1920 – 17 October 1956) was a British film actress, born in Palestine of a Scottish father and an English mother, and brought up in Edinburgh. Biography A contemporary of Margaret Lockwood and Phyllis Calver ....Goble p.498 References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. 1943 British novels Novels by Dorothy Whipple British novels adapted into films Novels set in England Novels set in the 1910s Novels set in the 1930s John Murray (publishing house) books {{1940s-nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1942. Events *January 1 – The U.K. Book Production War Economy Agreement comes into force. *February 20 – Jean Bruller's novella ''Le Silence de la mer'' (Silence of the Sea), about resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, is issued clandestinely as the first publication of Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris, under the pseudonym "Vercors". A hundred copies are distributed from late summer; the rest are destroyed by the occupying authorities. *February 22 – The Austrian-born novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte are found dead of a barbiturate overdose in their home in Petrópolis, Brazil, leaving notes indicating despair at the future of European civilization. The manuscript of Zweig's autobiography ''The World of Yesterday'', posted to his publisher a day earlier, is first published in Stockholm later in the year as ''Die Welt von Gestern''. *March – Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1939. Events *Early – The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States. The first of the nationally distributed titles is James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon''. *January **American literary magazine ''The Kenyon Review'' is founded and edited by John Crowe Ransom. **The American pulp science fiction magazine '' Startling Stories'' appears, edited by Mort Weisinger. It includes '' The Black Flame'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum as lead novel. **Eando Binder's story " I, Robot" appears in the U.S. science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories''. **'' The Criterion'', a British literary quarterly, is founded and edited by T. S. Eliot. **W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail from England for the United States. *January/February – '' Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism'', founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1935. Events *January – The first published portions of Yasunari Kawabata's novel '' Snow Country'' (雪国, ''Yukiguni'') appear as standalone stories in Japanese literature. *March 20 – The London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in Manchester's Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel '' Boy''. * May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, having left the British Royal Air Force in March, has an accident with his Brough Superior motorcycle while returning to his cottage at Clouds Hill, England, after posting books to a friend, A. E. "Jock" Chambers, and sending a telegram inviting the novelist Henry Williamson to lunch. He dies six days later. On July 29 his '' Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' is first published in an edition for general circulation. * June 15 ** W. H. Auden concludes a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. ** T. S. Eliot' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
