Warwick Deeping

Mary Grover (University of Sheffield)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

Born 28 May 1877
Died 20 Apr 1950
Activity 1903-1950

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

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Deeping's Works

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A bestselling novelist in both Europe and America in the 1920s and 1930s, Warwick Deeping became a household name in the years following the publication of

Sorrell and Son

in 1925. The novel's international success exposed him to the attention of writers as diverse as Graham Greene, George Orwell, and John Hampson. Deeping is still evoked by authors of higher cultural status than his own, Martin Amis and Sebastian Faulks for example, to characterise the shabby, twilight world of his readers whose quality of life is deplored or despised, or, in the case of John Betjeman's mock appreciation in “Station Syren”, affectionately patronised. However, for its millions of admiring readers

Sorrell and Son

had what the historian Ross McKibbin calls “talismanic status”. Deeping's status as…

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Citation: Grover, Mary. "Warwick Deeping". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 November 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1199, accessed 24 November 2024.]