| Dorothy Whipple | |
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| Born | 1893 Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1966 (aged 73) Blackburn, United Kingdom |
| Pen name | Dorothy Whipple |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genres | Popular fiction |
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Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (1893, Blackburn, Lancashire – 1966, Blackburn, Lancashire) was an English writer of popular fiction.
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Described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th Century" by J. B. Priestley,[1] her work enjoyed a period of great popularity between the wars, two of her novels being made into feature films, They Were Sisters[2] (1945) and They Knew Mr Knight[3] (1946). While the popularity of her work declined in the 1950s, it has seen a recent revival; six of her novels have recently been republished by Persephone Books. A volume of her collected short stories was published in October 2007.[4] Five of these were broadcast as The Afternoon Reading on BBC Radio 4. After the death of her husband in 1958, Dorothy Whipple returned to Blackburn, where she died in 1966.