Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Henry De Vere Stacpoole (born April 9, 1863 in Dún Laoghaire , Ireland , † April 12, 1951 in Shanklin , Isle of Wight , England ) was an Irish writer .

Life

Henry De Vere Stacpoole was born to a Canadian woman and a clergyman who ran a church. He studied at Malvern College and graduated in medicine from St. George's and St. Mary's Hospital in London in 1891 . He then took a job as a ship's doctor in the Royal Navy and traveled to the South Pacific . He became interested in literature from an early age. After becoming friends with the Anglo-American writer John Oliver Hobbes in the 1890s , he became a member of the Yellow Book literary circle . He started writing. However, his first novels were not crowned with success, which is why he in 1904Royal Literary Fund asked for financial help. Since he suffered from sciatica and depression - so Henry De Vere Stacpoole suggested - he could no longer find a job. More precisely - he cannot live on his income of £ 150, which he earns from writing.

However, his next two novels The Crimson Azaleas (1907) and especially The Blue Lagoon (1908) became bestsellers, which solved his financial problems. He moved to Chelmsford , Essex and later to Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. There he wrote other novels, including historical novels, a biography of the important French poet François Villon and with Men and Mice, 1863-1942 (1942) and More Men and Mice (1945) two autobiographies. His works have been translated into several languages, including Dutch , Swedish , French , Italian and also German.

As early as 1920, Garryowen , based on his 1909 novel Garryowen: The Romance of a Race-Horse , and The Man Who Lost Himself , based on his 1918 novel The Man Who Lost Himself , filmed the first two works. In 1923, W. Bowden and Dick Cruickshanks filmed and directed Stacpoole's most famous novel The Blue Lagoon for the first time. Two more film adaptations were to follow with The Blue Lagoon (1949) and The Blue Lagoon (1980). In 2012 another variant was produced with Blue Lagoon: Lifeless in love .

Stacpoole was married twice. After his first wife died, he married her sister Florence Robson in 1938.

Works

• 1894: The Intended: A Novel
• 1895: Pierrot! A story
• 1897: Death, the Knight, and the Lady: A Ghost Story
• 1899: The Doctor: A Study from Life
• 1899: The Rapin (republished in 1910: Toto: A Parisian Sketch )
  • 1901: Toto . Engelhorn Verlag , 160 pages
• 1914: Feyshad
• 1914: The Little Prince
• 1914: Pierrette (republished 1914: Poppyland )
• 1914: The Story of Abdul and Hafiz
• 1901: The Bourgeois
  • 1904: the bourgeois . Engelhorn Verlag, 160 pages
• 1902: The Lady-Killer
• 1906: Fanny Lambert: A Novel
  • 1909: Fanny Lambert . Engelhorn Verlag, 180 pages
• 1906: The Golden Astrolabe (together with WA Bryce )
• 1907: The Meddler: A Novel of Sorts (with WA Bryce )
• 1908: The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel
• 1908: The Blue Lagoon
  • 1924: The Blue Lagoon: A South Seas novel , A. Scherl, 170 pages
• 1908: The Cottage on the Fells
• 1908: Patsy: A Story
• 1908: The Reavers: A Tale of Wild Adventure on the Moors of Lorne (together with WA Bryce )
• 1908: The Man Without a Head (under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix)
• 1908: The Vulture's Prey (under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix)
• 1909: Garryowen: The Romance of a Race-Horse
  • 1912: The last card . Engelhorn Verlag, 310 pages
• 1909: The Pools of Silence
  • 1926: The silent waters: A travel u. Hunting novel from the Congo . Robert Lutz, 243 pages
• 1910: The Drums of War
• 1910: Poems and Ballads
• 1910: The Cruise of the King Fisher: A Tale of Deep-Sea Adventure
• 1911: The Ship of Coral: A Tropical Romance
• 1912: The Order of Release
• 1912: The Street of the Flute-Player: A Romance
• 1913: Molly Beamish
• 1913: Bird Cay
• 1913: The Children of the Sea: A Romance
  • 1931: Children of the Sea . Ullstein Verlag , 308 pages
• 1914: The Poems of Francois Villon
• 1914: Father O'Flynn
• 1914: The New Optimism
• 1914: Monsieur de Rochefort: A Romance of Old Paris (US publication: The Presentation )
• 1915: The Blue Horizon: Romance from the Tropics and the Sea
• 1915: The North Sea and Other Poems
• 1915: The Pearl Fishers
  • 1951: The pearl fishermen . Goldmann Verlag , 217 pages
• 1915: The Red Day
• 1916: The Reef of Stars: A Romance of the Tropics (US publication: The Gold Trail )
• 1916: Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion
  • 1927: Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion: Roman . Enßlin & Laiblin, 96 pages
• 1916: François Villon : His Life and Times, 1431–1463
• 1917: In Blue Waters
• 1917: Sea Plunder
• 1917: The Starlit Garden: A Romance of the South (US publication: The Ghost Girl )
• 1918: The Willow Tree: The Romance of a Japanese Garden
• 1918: The Man Who Lost Himself
• 1919: The Beach of Dreams: A Story of the True World
• 1919: Under Blue Skies
• 1920: Sappho: A New Rendering
• 1920: A Man of the Islands
• 1920: Uncle Simon, co-authored by Margaret Stacpoole (US publication: The Man Who Found Himself )
• 1921: Satan: A Story of the Sea King's Country
• 1921: Satan: a Romance of the Bahamas
• 1922: Men, Women, and Beasts
• 1922: Vanderhaben: The Story of a Man
• 1923: The Garden of God
• 1924: Golden Ballast
  • 1952: Gold on the Baltrum . Goldmann Verlag, 204 pages
• 1924: Ocean Tramps
• 1925: The House of Crimson Shadows: A Romance
• 1925: The Gates of Morning
  • 1951: The Gate of the Morning . Goldmann Verlag, 218 pages
• 1925: The City in the Sea
• 1926: Stories East and West: Tales of Men and Women
• 1927: The Mystery of Uncle Bollard
• 1927: Goblin Market: A Romance
• 1928: Tropic Love
• 1928: Roxanne (US publication: The Return of Spring )
  • 1929: Roxanne . Th. Knaur, 256 pages
• 1929: Eileen of the Trees
• 1929: The Girl of the Golden Reef: A Romance of the Blue Lagoon
• 1953: The golden reef . Goldmann Verlag, 203 pages
• 1930: The Tales of Mynheer Amayat
• 1930: The Chank Shell: A Tropical Romance of Love and Treasure (US publication: The Island of Lost Women )
  • 1953: They set fire to the ship . Goldmann Verlag, 205 pages
• 1931: Pacific Gold
• 1932: Love on the Adriatic
• 1932: The Lost Caravan
• 1933: Mandarin Gardens
• 1933: The Naked Soul: The Story of a Modern Knight
• 1933: The Blue Lagoon Omnibus
• 1934: The Vengeance of Mynheer Van Lok and Other Stories
• 1935: The Longshore Girl: A Romance
• 1935: Green Coral
• 1936: The Sunstone
• 1937: In a Bonchurch Garden: Poems and Translations
• 1937: Ginger Adams
• 1938: High-Yaller
• 1938: Old Sailors Never Lie and Other Tales of Land and Sea by One of Them
• 1939: Due East of Friday
• 1941: An American at Oxford
• 1942: Men and Mice, 1863–1942 ( autobiography )
• 1943: Oxford Goes to War: A Novel
• 1945: More Men and Mice ( autobiography )
• 1946: Harley Street: A Novel
• 1946: The Story of My Village
• 1949: The Land of Little Horses. A story
• 1949: The Man in Armor

literature

• EA Malone, "H. de Vere Stacpoole," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 153: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series , edited by GM Johnson, Detroit: Gale, 1995, pages 278-287.
• RF Hardin, "The Man Who Wrote The Blue Lagoon : Stacpoole's Pastoral Center," English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) , vol. 39, no. 2, 1996, pp. 205-20.
• C. Deméocq, "Henry de Vere Stacpoole aux Kerguelen," Carnets de l'Exotisme , vol. 17-18, 1996, pp 151-52.

Web links

• Works by Henry De Vere Stacpoole in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Henry De Vere Stacpoole in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Photo at Babelio (French)

Individual evidence

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