翻訳と辞書 |
Dorothy Whipple : ウィキペディア英語版 | Dorothy Whipple
Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (1893, Blackburn, Lancashire – 1966, Blackburn, Lancashire) was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books. ==Overview== Described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th Century" by J. B. Priestley,〔(Cottontown Website entry on Dorothy Whipple )〕 her work enjoyed a period of great popularity between the wars, two of her novels being made into feature films, ''They Were Sisters'' (1945) and ''They Knew Mr. Knight'' (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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Books )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Local novelist was described as the 'Jane Austen of the 20th century' )〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Whipple」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|