Warwick Deeping

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George Warwick Deeping (May 28, 1877–April 20, 1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is Sorrell and Son (1925).

Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer.

His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels can be seen as attempts at keeping alive the spirit of the Edwardian age.

He married Phyllis Maude Merrill and lived up to his death in Weybridge, Surrey.

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  • Uther and Igraine (1903), his first published novel
  • Love Among the Ruins (1904)
  • The Seven Streams (1905)
  • Bess of the Woods (1906)
The original edition of Sincerity
The original edition of Sincerity

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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 (arguably the very first; only the second half of the film had a soundtrack).

Sorrell and Son, based upon Deeping's experiences during the First World War, 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.

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Sorrell and son is not based around WD s experiences of world war 1. It concerns the life of ex captain sorrell primarily in the post war period and has almost nothing to do with the first world war.

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