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Warwick Deeping

December 07, 2023

For the anti-submarine trawler, see HMT Warwick Deeping.

George Warwick Deeping (28 May 1877 – 20 April 1950) was an English novelist and short story writer, whose best-known novel was Sorrell and Son (1925).

Warwick Deeping in 1932

Life edit

Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of physicians, Warwick Deeping was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study medicine and science (receiving his MA in March 1902[1]), then went to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training.[2] During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a physician to become a full-time writer.[3] He married Phyllis Maude Merrill and lived for the rest of his life in "Eastlands" on Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey.[4]

He was one of the best-selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s, with seven of his novels making the best-seller list. Deeping was a prolific writer of short stories, which appeared in such British magazines as Cassell's, The Story-Teller, and The Strand. He also published fiction in several US magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and Adventure.[5] All of the short stories and serialised novels in US magazines were reprints of works previously published in Britain. Well over 200 of his original short stories and essays that appeared in various British fiction magazines were never seen in book form during his lifetime.

Themes edit

Deeping's early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels more usually dealt with modern life, and were critical of many tendencies of twentieth-century civilisation. His standpoint was generally that of a passionate individualism, distrustful both of ruling elites and of the lower classes, who were often presented as a threat to his embattled middle-class protagonists. His most celebrated hero is Captain Sorrell M.C., the ex-officer who after the First World War is reduced to a menial occupation in which he is bullied by those of a lower social class and less education.

Deeping's novels often deal with controversial issues. In her 2009 study, The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping,[6] Mary Grover lists these:

  • social work and medicine in the slums (Roper's Row, 1929; The Impudence of Youth, 1946; Paradise Place, 1949.)
  • gender ambiguity (The Return of the Petticoat, 1907)
  • alcoholism (A Woman's War, 1907;[7] The Woman at the Door, 1937; The Dark House, 1941)
  • euthanasia (Sorrell and Son (1925); The Dark House, 1941)
  • wife abuse and justifiable homicide (The Woman at the Door, 1937)
  • shell shock (The Secret Sanctuary, 1923)
  • rape (The White Gate, 1913)
  • pollution of the water supply (Sincerity, 1912)[8]

Critical reception edit

Despite his use of controversial themes, Deeping received little recognition as a serious writer. George Orwell, whose political beliefs were very different from Deeping's, dismissed him as being among the 'huge tribe' of writers who 'simply don't notice what is happening'.[9] Graham Greene also criticized Deeping's work; in his book Journey Without Maps Greene includes Deeping's novels on a list of books "written without truth, without compulsion, one dull word following another."[10] By contrast, Kingsley Amis gave some guarded praise for Deeping's work. Amis read Deeping's Sorrell and Son and initially disliked the book. However, in a later interview Amis praised Sorrell and Son, saying "Its sensibility was very crude but it delivered".[11]

Books edit

  • Uther and Igraine (1903), his first published novel
  • Love Among the Ruins (1904)
  • The Slanderers (1904)
  • The Seven Streams (1905)
  • Bess of the Woods (1906)
  • The Return of the Petticoat (1907)
  • Bertrand of Brittany (1908)
  • Mad Barbara, also known as These White Hands (1908) Historical novel set during the Stuart Restoration[12]
  • The Red Saint (1909) Historical novel about Henry III of England[13]
  • The Rust of Rome (1910)
  • Fox Farm, also known as The Eyes of Love (1911)
  • Joan of the Tower (1911)
  • The Lame Englishman (1910)
  • Sincerity, also known as The Challenge of Love, The Strong Hand (1912)
  • The House of Spies (1913)
  • The White Gate (1913)
  • The Pride of Eve (1914)
  • The Shield of Love, also known as King Behind The King (1914)
  • Marriage by Conquest (1915)
  • Unrest, also known as Bridge of Desire (1916)
  • Martin Valliant (1917)
  • Countess Glika (1919)
  • Valour (1919)
  • Second Youth, also known as The Awakening (1919)
  • The Prophetic Marriage (1920)
  • The House of Adventure (1921)
  • Lantern Lane (1921)
  • Orchards, also known as The Captive Wife(1922)
  • Apples of Gold (1923)
  • The Secret Sanctuary or The Saving of John Stretton (1923)
  • Three Rooms (1924)
  • Suvla John (1924)
  • Sorrell and Son (1925)
  • Doomsday (1927)
  • Kitty (1927)
  • Old Pybus (1928)
  • Roper's Row (1929)
  • Exile (1930)
  • The Short Stories of Warwick Deeping, also known as Stories of Love, Courage, and Compassion (1930)
  • The Ten Commandments, also known as The Road (1931)
  • The Bridge of Desire (1931)
  • Old Wine and New (1932)
  • Smith (1932)
  • Two Black Sheep (1933)
  • The Eyes of Love (1933)
  • Seven Men Came Back (1934)
  • The Man on the White Horse (1934)
  • Two in a Train and Other Stories (1935)
  • Sackcloth into Silk, also known as The Golden Cord (1935)
  • No Hero—This (1936)
  • Blind Man's Year (1937)
  • The Malice of Men (1938)
  • Fantasia, also known as Bluewater (1939)
  • The Man Who Went Back (1940)
  • The Dark House (1941)
  • Corn in Egypt (1941)
  • I Live Again (1942)
  • Mr Gurney and Mr Slade, also known as The Cleric's Secret (1944)
  • The Impudence of Youth (1946)
  • Reprieve (1945)
  • Laughing House (1946)
  • Portrait of a Playboy, also known as The Playboy (1947)
  • Paradise Place (1949)
  • Old Mischief (1950)
Published posthumously
  • Time to Heal (1952)
  • Man in Chains (1953)
  • The Old World Dies (1954)
  • Caroline Terrace (1955)
  • The Serpent's Tooth (1956)
  • The Sword and the Cross (1957)
  • The Lost Stories of Warwick Deeping – Volumes I – VI (2013–2018) – A total of over 3000 pages, containing over 200 short stories, novellas, and essays. These works were never published in book form and only appeared in British and American fiction magazines in the 1910s-1930s, such as The Story-Teller, The New Magazine, Cassell's Magazine of Fiction, and The Strand.

Films edit

Movies based on Deeping's novels belong, with two exceptions, to the silent era. Unrest was filmed in 1920, Fox Farm in 1922, and Doomsday in 1928. Kitty (1929), directed by Victor Saville, was one of the first British talkies (only the second half of the film had a soundtrack).

Sorrell and Son (about an officer who after the First World War finds himself unemployable except in a menial capacity, but who is determined to give his son the best education possible) was filmed three times: It first appeared in 1927 as a silent movie, was remade in 1934 as a sound film, and turned into a TV mini-series in 1984.

References edit

  1. ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36711. London. 10 March 1902. p. 11.
  2. ^ "Deeping, George Warwick (DPN895GW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Ruth Franklin. Readers of the Pack: American Best-Selling Bookforum. Summer 2011.
  4. ^ Greenwood, G.B., ed. (1983). Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge: A dictionary of local History (4th ed.). Weybridge: Walton & Weybridge Local History Society. p. 22.
  5. ^ Jones, Robert Kenneth. The Lure of "Adventure". Wildside Press, 2007, p. 27
  6. ^ Mary Grover,The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009)
  7. ^ "Review of A Woman's War by Warwick Deeping". The Athenaeum (4158): 11. 6 July 1907.
  8. ^ The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping, 60.
  9. ^ George Orwell, 'Inside the Whale', New Directions in Prose and Poetry (1940).
  10. ^ Graham Greene, Journey Without Maps. London ; Toronto : William Heinemann, 1936. (pp. 14-5).
  11. ^ 'Amis on writers and writing', The Sunday Times, 31 March 1996, p. 2.
  12. ^ " Mr. "Warwick Deeping writes with, vigor and brilliance, and gives us an historical novel that cannot fail to be widely appreciated...The period is the Restoration, that free-and easy period in everything, and some fine scenes are evolved."' "Review of 'Mad Barbara'", The World's News, 28 November 1908 (p.29).
  13. ^ "This is a historical novel, dealing with the Insurrection of Simon de Montfort against Henry III. and his Norman favourites". "Review of "The Red Saint"" by Warwick Deeping." The Herald 17 August 1909 (p.3)

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For the anti submarine trawler see HMT Warwick Deeping George Warwick Deeping 28 May 1877 20 April 1950 was an English novelist and short story writer whose best known novel was Sorrell and Son 1925 Warwick Deeping in 1932 Contents 1 Life 2 Themes 3 Critical reception 4 Books 5 Films 6 References 7 External linksLife editBorn in Southend on Sea Essex into a family of physicians Warwick Deeping was educated at Merchant Taylors School He proceeded to Trinity College Cambridge to study medicine and science receiving his MA in March 1902 1 then went to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training 2 During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps Deeping later gave up his job as a physician to become a full time writer 3 He married Phyllis Maude Merrill and lived for the rest of his life in Eastlands on Brooklands Road Weybridge Surrey 4 He was one of the best selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s with seven of his novels making the best seller list Deeping was a prolific writer of short stories which appeared in such British magazines as Cassell s The Story Teller and The Strand He also published fiction in several US magazines including the Saturday Evening Post and Adventure 5 All of the short stories and serialised novels in US magazines were reprints of works previously published in Britain Well over 200 of his original short stories and essays that appeared in various British fiction magazines were never seen in book form during his lifetime Themes editDeeping s early work is dominated by historical romances His later novels more usually dealt with modern life and were critical of many tendencies of twentieth century civilisation His standpoint was generally that of a passionate individualism distrustful both of ruling elites and of the lower classes who were often presented as a threat to his embattled middle class protagonists His most celebrated hero is Captain Sorrell M C the ex officer who after the First World War is reduced to a menial occupation in which he is bullied by those of a lower social class and less education Deeping s novels often deal with controversial issues In her 2009 study The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping 6 Mary Grover lists these social work and medicine in the slums Roper s Row 1929 The Impudence of Youth 1946 Paradise Place 1949 gender ambiguity The Return of the Petticoat 1907 alcoholism A Woman s War 1907 7 The Woman at the Door 1937 The Dark House 1941 euthanasia Sorrell and Son 1925 The Dark House 1941 wife abuse and justifiable homicide The Woman at the Door 1937 shell shock The Secret Sanctuary 1923 rape The White Gate 1913 pollution of the water supply Sincerity 1912 8 Critical reception editDespite his use of controversial themes Deeping received little recognition as a serious writer George Orwell whose political beliefs were very different from Deeping s dismissed him as being among the huge tribe of writers who simply don t notice what is happening 9 Graham Greene also criticized Deeping s work in his book Journey Without Maps Greene includes Deeping s novels on a list of books written without truth without compulsion one dull word following another 10 By contrast Kingsley Amis gave some guarded praise for Deeping s work Amis read Deeping s Sorrell and Son and initially disliked the book However in a later interview Amis praised Sorrell and Son saying Its sensibility was very crude but it delivered 11 Books editUther and Igraine 1903 his first published novel Love Among the Ruins 1904 The Slanderers 1904 The Seven Streams 1905 Bess of the Woods 1906 The Return of the Petticoat 1907 Bertrand of Brittany 1908 Mad Barbara also known as These White Hands 1908 Historical novel set during the Stuart Restoration 12 The Red Saint 1909 Historical novel about Henry III of England 13 The Rust of Rome 1910 Fox Farm also known as The Eyes of Love 1911 Joan of the Tower 1911 The Lame Englishman 1910 Sincerity also known as The Challenge of Love The Strong Hand 1912 The House of Spies 1913 The White Gate 1913 The Pride of Eve 1914 The Shield of Love also known as King Behind The King 1914 Marriage by Conquest 1915 Unrest also known as Bridge of Desire 1916 Martin Valliant 1917 Countess Glika 1919 Valour 1919 Second Youth also known as The Awakening 1919 The Prophetic Marriage 1920 The House of Adventure 1921 Lantern Lane 1921 Orchards also known as The Captive Wife 1922 Apples of Gold 1923 The Secret Sanctuary or The Saving of John Stretton 1923 Three Rooms 1924 Suvla John 1924 Sorrell and Son 1925 Doomsday 1927 Kitty 1927 Old Pybus 1928 Roper s Row 1929 Exile 1930 The Short Stories of Warwick Deeping also known as Stories of Love Courage and Compassion 1930 The Ten Commandments also known as The Road 1931 The Bridge of Desire 1931 Old Wine and New 1932 Smith 1932 Two Black Sheep 1933 The Eyes of Love 1933 Seven Men Came Back 1934 The Man on the White Horse 1934 Two in a Train and Other Stories 1935 Sackcloth into Silk also known as The Golden Cord 1935 No Hero This 1936 Blind Man s Year 1937 The Malice of Men 1938 Fantasia also known as Bluewater 1939 The Man Who Went Back 1940 The Dark House 1941 Corn in Egypt 1941 I Live Again 1942 Mr Gurney and Mr Slade also known as The Cleric s Secret 1944 The Impudence of Youth 1946 Reprieve 1945 Laughing House 1946 Portrait of a Playboy also known as The Playboy 1947 Paradise Place 1949 Old Mischief 1950 Published posthumouslyTime to Heal 1952 Man in Chains 1953 The Old World Dies 1954 Caroline Terrace 1955 The Serpent s Tooth 1956 The Sword and the Cross 1957 The Lost Stories of Warwick Deeping Volumes I VI 2013 2018 A total of over 3000 pages containing over 200 short stories novellas and essays These works were never published in book form and only appeared in British and American fiction magazines in the 1910s 1930s such as The Story Teller The New Magazine Cassell s Magazine of Fiction and The Strand Films editMovies based on Deeping s novels belong with two exceptions to the silent era Unrest was filmed in 1920 Fox Farm in 1922 and Doomsday in 1928 Kitty 1929 directed by Victor Saville was one of the first British talkies only the second half of the film had a soundtrack Sorrell and Son about an officer who after the First World War finds himself unemployable except in a menial capacity but who is determined to give his son the best education possible was filmed three times It first appeared in 1927 as a silent movie was remade in 1934 as a sound film and turned into a TV mini series in 1984 References edit University intelligence The Times No 36711 London 10 March 1902 p 11 Deeping George Warwick DPN895GW A Cambridge Alumni Database University of Cambridge Ruth Franklin Readers of the Pack American Best Selling Bookforum Summer 2011 Greenwood G B ed 1983 Walton on Thames and Weybridge A dictionary of local History 4th ed Weybridge Walton amp Weybridge Local History Society p 22 Jones Robert Kenneth The Lure of Adventure Wildside Press 2007 p 27 Mary Grover The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping Madison Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2009 Review of A Woman s War by Warwick Deeping The Athenaeum 4158 11 6 July 1907 The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping 60 George Orwell Inside the Whale New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1940 Graham Greene Journey Without Maps London Toronto William Heinemann 1936 pp 14 5 Amis on writers and writing The Sunday Times 31 March 1996 p 2 Mr Warwick Deeping writes with vigor and brilliance and gives us an historical novel that cannot fail to be widely appreciated The period is the Restoration that free and easy period in everything and some fine scenes are evolved Review of Mad Barbara The World s News 28 November 1908 p 29 This is a historical novel dealing with the Insurrection of Simon de Montfort against Henry III and his Norman favourites Review of The Red Saint by Warwick Deeping The Herald 17 August 1909 p 3 Tuck Donald H 1974 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Chicago Advent p 134 ISBN 0 911682 20 1 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