Dorothy Whipple

Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (1893, Blackburn, Lancashire – 1966, Blackburn, Lancashire) was an English writer of popular fiction. Described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th Century" by J. B. Priestley, 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 ... more

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