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Membership of the Warwick Deeping Appreciation Society is open to all with an interest in the life and work of this once immensely popular novelist who produced 70 novels and many short stories. He achieved worldwide fame with Sorrell and Son published in 1925, which ran into many editions and was still being reprinted in the 1980s. This and several of his other books were published in America, Australia and Canada as well as being printed in many foreign languages. Three stories were later made into films. Born in Southend in 1877 and educated at Merchant Taylors School and at London and Trinity College, Cambridge, he obtained a BA and BM and went on to gain an MA. Following which he worked at Middlesex Hospital. After only one year of practice he gave up medicine to devote himself to writing. In 1904 be married Maude Phyllis, daughter of Captain Merrill ‘Late of the Hussars’. His first book Uther and Igraine was published in 1903. By 1915 he had 19 books to his credit. It was in 1915 that he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and saw active service throughout the Gallipoli | . |
campaign. From there he went to Egypt and then to France. After leaving the army with the rank of major, he eventually took up residence in Weybridge where he lived until his death on 20th
April 1950. His wife died in 1971. With his training as a doctor and his experiences on the battlefields of the First World War he was able to observe at close hand the lives (and deaths) of men serving in the trenches. He also wrote about the traumatic experiences of servicemen coming home after the war to a world that had changed almost beyond recognition. He observed and recorded in other novels life in this country during the 1920s and 1930s, continuing through the Second World War. Another favourite theme was the historical novel; his last book The Sword and the Cross was set in the last days of Roman Britain. A quarterly newsletter includes reviews of WD’s books and the results of research into his life. It is hoped to bring about a revival of interest in the work of this long neglected author, and eventually publication of a biography of the man. |
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