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                            Introduction
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Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 - 29 December 1960) was an English
author, poet and dramatist. He was born in Mount Abu, India, was
educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for
ten years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a
writer.


                                Life
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Eden Phillpotts was a great-nephew of Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of
Exeter. His father Henry Phillpotts was a son of the bishop's younger
brother Thomas Phillpotts. James Surtees Phillpotts the reforming
headmaster of Bedford School was his second cousin.

Eden Phillpotts was born on 4 November 1862 at Mount Abu in Rajasthan.
His father Henry was an officer in the Indian Army, while his mother
Adelaide was the daughter of an Indian Civil Service officer posted in
Madras, George Jenkins Waters.

Henry Phillpotts died in 1865, leaving Adelaide a widow at the age of
21. With her three small sons, of whom Eden was the eldest, she
returned to England and settled in Plymouth.

Phillpotts was educated at Mannamead School in Plymouth. At school he
showed no signs of a literary bent. In 1879, aged 17, he left home and
went to London to earn his living. He found a job as a clerk with the
Sun Fire Office.

Phillpotts' ambition was to be an actor and he attended evening
classes at a drama school for two years. He came to the conclusion
that he would never make a name as an actor but might have success as
a writer. In his spare time out of office hours he proceeded to create
a stream of small works which he was able to sell. In due course he
left the insurance company to concentrate on his writing, while also
working part-time as assistant editor for the weekly 'Black and White'
magazine.

Eden Phillpotts maintained a steady output of three or four books a
year for the next half century. He produced poetry, short stories,
novels, plays and mystery tales. Many of his novels were about rural
Devon life and some of his plays were distinguished by their effective
use of regional dialect.

Eden Phillpotts died at his home in Broadclyst near Exeter, Devon, on
29 December 1960.


                           Personal life
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Phillpotts was for many years the President of the Dartmoor
Preservation Association and cared passionately about the conservation
of Dartmoor.  He was an agnostic and a supporter of the Rationalist
Press Association.

Phillpotts was a friend of Agatha Christie, who was an admirer of his
work and a regular visitor to his home. She dedicated her 1932 novel
'Peril at End House' to Phillpotts, and in her autobiography, she
expressed gratitude for his early advice on fiction writing and quoted
some of it. Jorge Luis Borges was another Phillpotts admirer. Borges
mentioned him numerous times, wrote at least two reviews of his
novels, and included him in his "Personal Library", a collection of
works selected to reflect his personal literary preferences.

Philpotts allegedly sexually abused his daughter Adelaide. In a 1976
interview for a book about her father, Adelaide described an
incestuous "relationship" with him that she says lasted from the age
of five or six until her early thirties, when he remarried. When she
herself finally married at the age of 55 her father never forgave her,
and never communicated with her again.


                              Writings
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Phillpotts wrote a great many books with a Dartmoor setting. One of
his novels, 'Widecombe Fair' (1913), inspired by an annual fair at the
village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, provided the scenario for his comic
play 'The Farmer's Wife' (1916). It went on to become a 1928 silent
film of the same name, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was followed
by a 1941 remake, directed by Norman Lee and Leslie Arliss. It became
a BBC TV drama in 1955, directed by Owen Reed. Jan Stewer played
Churdles Ash. The BBC had broadcast the play in 1934.

He co-wrote several plays with his daughter Adelaide Phillpotts, 'The
Farmer's Wife' and 'Yellow Sands' (1926); she later claimed their
relationship was incestuous. Eden is best known as the author of many
novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. His Dartmoor cycle of 18
novels and two volumes of short stories still has many avid readers
despite the fact that many titles are out of print.

Philpotts also wrote a series of novels, each set against the
background of a different trade or industry. Titles include: 'Brunel's
Tower' (a pottery) and 'Storm in a Teacup' (hand-papermaking). Among
his other works is 'The Grey Room', the plot of which is centred on a
haunted room in an English manor house. He also wrote a number of
other mystery novels, both under his own name and the pseudonym
Harrington Hext. These include: 'The Thing at Their Heels', 'The Red
Redmaynes', 'The Monster', 'The Clue from the Stars', and 'The
Captain's Curio'. 'The Human Boy' was a collection of schoolboy
stories in the same genre as Rudyard Kipling's 'Stalky & Co.',
though different in mood and style. Late in his long writing career he
wrote a few books of interest to science fiction and fantasy readers,
the most noteworthy being 'Saurus', which involves an alien reptilian
observing human life.

Eric Partridge praised the immediacy and impact of his dialect
writing.


                            Photographs
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Postbridge Clapper Bridge 2005-07-21.jpg|The clapper bridge at
Postbridge, which is the central location of Phillpotts' novel 'The
Thief of Virtue'.


                               Works
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Novels
*'The End of a Life' (1891)
*'Folly and Fresh Air' (1891)
*'A Tiger's Club' (1892)
*[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180837 'A Deal with the
Devil'] (1895)
*[https://archive.org/details/someeverydayfol00philgoog 'Some
Every-day Folks'] (1895)
*[https://archive.org/details/mylaughingphilo00philgoog 'My Laughing
Philosopher'] (1896)
*[https://archive.org/details/downdartmoorway00philgoog 'Down Dartmoor
Way'] (1896)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=9tE_AQAAIAAJ 'Lying Prophets: A
Novel'] (1897)
*'Children of the Mist' (1898)
*'Sons of the Morning' (1900)
* [https://archive.org/details/goodredearth00philgoog 'The Good Red
Earth'] (1901)
*'The River' (1902)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=-f8nAAAAMAAJ 'Old Delabole']
(1903)
*[https://archive.org/details/goldenfetich00philgoog 'The Golden
Fetich'] (1903)
*'The American Prisoner' (1904)
*[https://archive.org/details/farmdagger00philgoog 'The Farm of the
Dagger'] (1904)
*'The Secret Woman' (1905)
*'The Poacher's Wife' (1906) AKA 'Daniel Sweetland' (1906)
*'The Sinews of War: A Romance of London and the Sea' (1906) with
Arnold Bennett
*'Doubloons' (1906) with Arnold Bennett
*'The Portreeve' (1906)
*'The Whirlwind' (1907)
*[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180837 'The Human Boy
Again'] (1908)
* [https://archive.org/details/mother00philgoog 'The Mother'] (1908)
* [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180842 'The Virgin in
Judgment'] (1908) AKA 'A Fight to Finish' (1911)
* [https://archive.org/details/statueastoryint00benngoog 'The Statue:
A Story of International Intrigue and Mystery'] (1908) with Arnold
Bennett
*[https://archive.org/stream/threebrothers01philgoog#page/n12/mode/2up
'The Three Brothers'] (1909)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Gsw5AQAAMAAJ 'The Fun of the
Fair'] (1909)
*'The Haven' (1909)
*[https://archive.org/details/flintheartfairys00philiala 'The Flint
Heart: A Fairy Story'] (1910)
*'The Thief of Virtue' (1910)
*'The Beacon' (1911)
*[https://archive.org/details/demetersdaughte01philgoog 'Demeter's
Daughter'] (1911)
*'The Three Knaves' (1912)
*'The Forest on the Hill' (1912)
* [https://archive.org/stream/loversromance00philuoft#page/n9/mode/2up
'The Lovers: A Romance'] (1912)
*'Widecombe Fair' (1913)
*[https://archive.org/details/joyyouth01philgoog 'The Joy of Youth']
(1913)
*[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063947231;view=1up;seq=9
'The Old Time Before Them'] (1913)
*[https://archive.org/details/faithtresilion02philgoog 'Faith
Tresilion'] (1914)
*'The Master of Merripit' (1914)
*'Brunel's Tower' (1915)
*[https://archive.org/details/greenalleysacom00philgoog 'The Green
Alleys: A Comedy'] (1916)
*[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180839 'The Human Boy
and the War'] (1916)
*'The Banks of Colne: (the Nursery)' (1917)
*'The Girl and the Faun' (1917)
*[https://archive.org/details/spinners00philgoog 'The Spinners']
(1918)
* [https://archive.org/details/fromanglesevent00philgoog 'From the
Angle of Seventeen'] (1912)
*'Evander' (1919)
*[https://archive.org/details/storminateacup01philgoog 'Storm in a
Teacup'] (1919)
*'Miser's Money' (1920)
* [https://archive.org/details/eudociaacomedyr00philgoog 'Eudocia']
(1921)
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1577/1577-h/1577-h.htm 'The Grey
Room'] (1921)
*'The Bronze Venus' (1921)
*'Orphan Dinah' (1920)
* [https://archive.org/details/redredmaynes00philuoft 'The Red
Redmaynes'] (1922)
*'Pan and the Twins' (1922)
* [https://archive.org/details/number00philgoog 'Number 87'] (1922)
* [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b307410;view=1up;seq=9
'The Thing at Their Heels'] (1923)
*'Children of Men' (1923)
*'Cheat-the-boys; a Story of the Devonshire Orchards' (1924)
*'Redcliff' (1924)
*'The Treasures of Typhon' (1924)
*'The Lavender Dragon' (1924)
*'Who Killed Diana?' (1924)
*'Circé's Island' (1924)
*'A Voice from the Dark' (1925)
*'The Monster' (1925)
*'George Westover' (1926)
*'The Marylebone Miser' (1926) AKA 'Jig-Saw' (1926)
*[https://archive.org/stream/cornishdrollnove00phil#page/n9/mode/2up
'Cornish Droll: A Novel'] (1926)
*'The Miniature' (1926)
*'The Jury' (1927)
*'Arachne' (1928)
*'The Ring Fence' (1928)
*'Tryphena' (1929)
*'The Apes' (1929)
*'The Three Maidens' (1930)
*'Alcyone (a Fairy Story)' (1930)
*'"Found Drowned"' (1931)
*'A Clue from the Stars' (1932)
*'The Broom Squires' (1932)
*'Stormbury, A Story of Devon' (1932)
*'The Captain's Curio' (1933)
*'Bred in the Bone' (1933)
*'Witch's Cauldron' (1933)
*'Nancy Owlett' (1933)
*'Minions of the Moon' (1934)
*'Ned of the Caribbees' (1934)
*'Portrait of a Gentleman' (1934)
*'Mr. Digweed and Mr. Lumb: A Mystery Novel' (1934)
*'The Oldest Inhabitant: A Comedy' (1934)
*'A Close Call' (1936)
*'The Owl of Athene' (1936)
*'The White Camel: A Story of Arabia' (1936)
*'The Anniversary Murder' (1936)
*'The Wife of Elias: A Mystery Novel' (1937)
*'Wood-nymph' (1937)
*'Farce in Three Acts' (1937)
*'Portrait of a Scoundrel' (1938)
*[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20120517 'Saurus'] (1938)
*[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20120828 'Lycanthrope,
the Mystery of Sir William Wolf'] (1938)
*'Dark Horses' (1938)
*'Golden Island' (1938)
*'Thorn in Her Flesh' (1939)
*'Tabletop' (1939) with Arnold Bennett
*'Monkshood' (1939)
*'Chorus of Clowns' (1940)
*'Goldcross' (1940)
*'Awake Deborah!' (1941)
*'Ghostwater' (1941)
*'The Deed Without a Name' (1942)
*'Pilgrims of the Night' (1942)
*'A Museum Piece' (1943)
*'Flower of the Gods' (1943)
*'The Changeling' (1944)
*'The Drums of Dombali' (1945)
*'They Were Seven: (A Mystery)' (1945)
*'Quartet' (1946)
*'The Fall of the House of Heron' (1948)
*'Address Unknown' (1949)
*'The Waters of Walla' (1950)
*'Through a Glass Darkly' (1951)
*'George and Georgina: A Mystery Story' (1952)
*'His Brother's Keeper' (1953)
*'The Widow Garland' (1955)
*'Connie Woodland' (1956)
*'Giglet Market' (1957)
*'There Was an Old Man' (1959)

Short Fiction Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/myadventureinfly00phil#page/n3/mode/2up
'My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman; a Romance of London and
North-Western Railway Shares'] (1888)
* [https://archive.org/details/humanboybyedenp00wardgoog 'The Human
Boy'] (1899)
*'Loup-garou!' (1899)
*'Summer Clouds and Other Stories' (1893)
* [https://archive.org/details/fancyfree00phil 'Fancy Free'] (1901)
*[https://archive.org/details/strikinghours00philgoog 'The Striking
Hours'] (1901)
* [https://archive.org/details/transitreddrago00philgoog 'The Transit
of the Red Dragon: And Other Tales'] (1903)
*[https://archive.org/details/knockataventure01philgoog 'Knock at a
Venture'] (1905)
*'The Unlucky Number' (1906)
*[https://archive.org/details/folfafield00philgoog 'The Folk Afield']
(1907)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgY8AQAAMAAJ 'Tales of the
Tenements'] (1910)
*'The Judge's Chair' (1914)
* [https://archive.org/details/humanboyandwar02philgoog 'The Human Boy
and the War'] (1916)
*'Chronicles of St. Tid' (1918)
* [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b243884;view=1up;seq=7
'Black, White, and Brindled'] (1923)
*'Up Hill, Down Dale: A Volume of Short Stories' (1925)
*'Peacock House and Other Mysteries' (1926)
*'It happened Like That, a New Volume of Short Stories' (1928)
*'Brother Man' (1928)
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15737/15737-h/15737-h.htm 'The Torch
and Other Tales'] (1929)
*'Cherry Gambol and Other Stories' (1930)
*'They Could Do No Other: A Volume of Stories' (1932)
*'Once upon a Time' (1936)
*'The Hidden Hand' (1952)

Poetry
*[https://archive.org/details/upalonganddowna00shepgoog 'Up-Along and
Down-Along'] (1905)
*[https://archive.org/details/wildfruit00philuoft 'Wild Fruit'] (1911)
*[https://archive.org/stream/iscariot01phil#page/n7/mode/2up 'The
Iscariot'] (1912)
*[https://archive.org/stream/delight00phil#page/n9/mode/2up 'Delight
and Other Poems'] (1916)
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924013536051#page/n7/mode/2up 'Plain
Song'] (1917)
*[https://archive.org/stream/shadowpasses00phil#page/n5/mode/2up 'A
Shadow Passes'] [Observations and Poems] (1918)
*[https://archive.org/details/aswindblows00philgoog 'As the Wind
Blows'] (1920)
*[https://archive.org/stream/dishofapples00philrich#page/n11/mode/2up
'A Dish of Apples'] (1921)
*[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180840 'Pixies' Plot']
(1922)
*'Thoughts in Prose and Verse' (1924)
*'Cherry-Stones' (1924)
*'A Harvesting' (1924)
*'Brother Beast' (1928)
*'Goodwill' (1928)
*'For Remembrance' (1929)
*'A Hundred Sonnets' (1929)
*'A Hundred Lyrics' (1930)
*'Becoming' (1932)
*
[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015059405921;view=1up;seq=7
'Song of a Sailor Man: A Narrative Poem'] (1933)
*'Sonnets from Nature' (1935)
*'A Dartmoor Village' (1937)
*'Miniatures' (1942)
*'The Enchanted Wood' (1948)
*'One Thing and Another' [Essays and poems.] (1954)

Plays
*[https://archive.org/details/prudesprogressa00philgoog 'The Prude's
Progress: A Comedy'] with Jerome K. Jerome (1895)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=3lDTM-bEdH8C 'A Golden Wedding: An
Original Comedy in One Act'] (1899)
*'A Breezy Morning' (1904)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=R0YWAAAAYAAJ 'A Pair of
Knickerbockers'] (1900)
*[https://archive.org/stream/curtainraisers00phil#page/n9/mode/2up
'Curtain Raisers'] (1912)
*[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t52f7qs4v;view=1up;seq=7
'The Shadow; A Play in Three Acts'] (1913)
*[https://archive.org/stream/motherplayinfour00phil#page/n5/mode/2up
'The Mother: A Play in Four Acts'] (1914)
*[https://archive.org/stream/secretwomanplayi01phil#page/n5/mode/2up
'The Secret Woman; A Play in Five Acts'] (1914)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=eUQWAAAAYAAJ 'The Angel in the
House: A Comedy in Three Acts'] (1915)
*'[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150250 The Farmer's
Wife]' (1916)
*'Arachne; A Play' (1920) By Adelaide Eden Phillpotts
*[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063753217;view=1up;seq=7
'St. George and the Dragons: A Comedy in Three Acts'] (1919) AKA *'The
bishop's night out' (1929)
*'The Market-Money. A Play in One Act' (1923)
*'Bed Rock: A Comedy in Three Acts' (1924)
*'Devonshire Cream: A Comedy in Three Acts' (1925)
*'A Comedy Royal' (1925) Dramatization of 'Eudocia (1921)'
*'Yellow Sands' (1926)
*'Blue Comet' (1927)
*'The Runaways: A Comedy in Three Acts' (1928)
*'Three Short Plays: The Market-money; Something to Talk about; The
Purple Bedroom' (1928)
*'Buy a Broom: A Comedy in Three Acts' (1929)
*'Jane's Legacy: A Folk Play in Three Acts' (1931)
*'The Good Old Days: A Comedy in Three Acts' (1932) with his daughter
*'Bert: A Play in One Act' (1932)
*'A Cup of Happiness: A Comedy' (1933)
*'At the 'bus-stop: A Duologue for Two Women' (1943)
*'The Orange Orchard' (1951) Based on 'The Waters of Walla'

Nonfiction
*'In Sugar-Cane Land' (1890)
*[https://archive.org/stream/mygarden00philgoog#page/n10/mode/2up 'My
Garden'] (1906)
*'Dance of the Months.' [Sketches of Dartmoor and poems.] (1911)
*[https://archive.org/stream/myshrubs00philuoft#page/n7/mode/2up 'My
Shrubs'] (1915)
*[https://archive.org/details/mydevonyear01philgoog 'My Devon Year']
(1916)
*'One Hundred Pictures from Eden Phillpotts / Selected by L.H.
Brewitt' (1919)
*'A West Country Pilgrimage' (1920) [Essays and verse.]
*'A West Country Sketch Book' (1928) Essays from 'Dance of the Months'
and 'A West Country Pilgrimage' with one new essay.
*'Essays in Little' (1931)
*'Handmade Paper: Its Method of Manufacture as Described in the Novel
"Storm in a Teacup"' (1932)
*'A Year with Bisshe-Bantam' (1934)
*'A Mixed Grill' (1940) Essays.
*'From the Angle of 88' (1951)
*'Selected Letters' (1984)


Omnibus
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*'Dartmoor Omnibus' ['Orphan Dinah', 'Three Brothers', 'Children of
Men', 'The Whirlwind']
*[https://archive.org/stream/threeplaysshadow00phil#page/n5/mode/2up
'Three plays: The shadows; The mother; The secret woman'] (1913)
*'Circe's Island and The Girl & The Faun' (1925)
*'The Complete Human Boy. Comprising "The Human Boy," "The Human Boy
Again," "The Human Boy and the War," "The Human Boy's Diary," "From
the Angle of Seventeen," Etc.' (1930)
*'West Country Plays' (1933) ['Buy a Broom' and 'A Cup of Happiness'.]
*'The Book of Avis: A Trilogy Comprising Bred in the Bone, Witch's
Cauldron, A Shadow Passes' [1936]


Further reading
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*
* The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, George Watson,
Ian R. Willison CUP Archive, 1987


                           External links
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* [http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/5293 Eden
Phillpotts papers, MSS 1458] in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
* [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01271
Eden Phillpotts Collection] at the Harry Ransom Center


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