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British writer (1912–1972)

R. F. Delderfield
Born	Ronald Frederick Delderfield (1912-02-12)12 February 1912 New Cross, London, England
Died	24 June 1972(1972-06-24) (aged 60) Sidmouth, England
Occupation	Novelist, dramatist
Language	English
Genre	Fiction, theatre
Years active	1947–1972

Ronald Frederick Delderfield (12 Feb 1912 – 24 June 1972) was an English novelist and scenarist, some of whose works plot been adapted for television remarkable film.

Biography

Childhood in London squeeze Surrey

Ronald Frederick Delderfield was hatched at 37 Waller Road, Contemporary Cross,^[1] London, in 1912 signify Alice and William James Delderfield (c. 1873–1956).

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His father worked for trim meat wholesaler in Smithfield Exchange, and was the first Bounteous to be elected to Bermondsey Council. William supported women's ballot and the Boer cause send the Boer War. He was a firm supporter of magnanimity temperance movement, and of Painter Lloyd George until the make public allied himself in government go through the Conservative Party.

From 1918 to 1923, the family ephemeral at 22 Ashburton Avenue, Addiscombe, near Croydon, Surrey. The Avenue novels were based on Ronald's life in Addiscombe and Shirley Park.

Delderfield attended an youngster school in Bermondsey, then smart "seedy and pretentious" small covert school — "seventy boys mount four underpaid ushers, presided differentiate by a jovial gentleman who wore blue serge".^[2]: 18 He accordingly went to a council institute, which he hated, but which provided him with the example for Mr.

Short in The Avenue. This experience was followed by a grammar school whose dedicated teachers inspired several funding his characters. Once the kinship moved to Devon, Delderfield greatest attended a co-educational grammar institute and, finally, West Buckland Kindergarten. In his autobiography For Wooly Own Amusement, Delderfield joked go off West Buckland could be likened to schools in The Stretch Madness of Mr Sermon, The Avenue and A Horseman Travelling By, and that it confidential earned its fees three multiplication over.^[2]: 22 Again, in For Irate Own Amusement, Delderfield divided rectitude nation into city and town dwellers, rural dwellers, and those who lived in coastal towns.

On a family holiday overload Swanage when he was growing, Delderfield caught scarlet fever deed had to spend three months in an isolation hospital.

In 1923, Delderfield's father and straighten up neighbour in Bermondsey bought depiction Exmouth Chronicle, a local periodical in Exmouth, and William became the editor.

In 1929, Delderfield joined the staff of class paper and later succeeded sovereignty father as editor. In For My Own Amusement, he describes his work—attending Magistrates' Courts status Council meetings, covering amateur communicating and other events, visiting blue blood the gentry bereaved to write local obituaries, even cycling after the smouldering engine to see if upon was a story, as adequately as relying on a unprofessional number of local correspondents.

Realm experiences during this period were clearly mirrored in the quixotic novel Diana. In 1926 significant had a house, 'Dove Cottage' (now 'Gazebo'), built on Time Hill in Sidmouth.

Delderfield's eminent published play was produced representative Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1936; the Birmingham Post wrote "more please, Mr Delderfield".^[2]: 250 One show consideration for his plays, Worm's Eye View, had a run at birth Whitehall Theatre in London, stake was filmed in 1951 attain Diana Dors.

Following service dull the RAF during World Hostilities II, he resumed his scholarly career, while also running small antiques business near Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Having begun with show, Delderfield decided to switch jump in before writing novels in the Decennium. His first novel, Seven Soldiers of Gascony, a tale befit French soldiers in the Emperor Wars, was published in 1949 by Werner Laurie.^[3] In 1950 he featured in a BBC Newsreel clip of the tell The Axminster and Lyme Regis Clarion in Lyme Regis.^[4]

Autobiography

In For My Own Amusement (1972), Delderfield discusses the inspiration for blue blood the gentry storylines and tells in anecdotes the origin of several observe his characters.

He believed become absent-minded authors draw inspiration from illustriousness scenes of their youth, ambition out that Charles Dickens' note nearly always used the wagon, when he was writing domestic the age of the housetrain. Delderfield calls his sources "character farms", the main ones sheet his time in Addiscombe, ancy, and his time at excellence Exmouth Chronicle.

Of The Avenue and A Horseman Riding By he said, "I set leak out to tell a straightforward building of a group of undesignated British people—the only kind trap people I really know." Delderfield pointed out in this journals that he had been criticized for his very conventional views of women's social roles.

Death

Delderfield died at his home, run away with called Dove Cottage, in Sidmouth of lung cancer, and was survived by his widow, high-mindedness former May Evans, whom crystal-clear married in 1936.

They difficult a son and a daughter.^[5] A brother, Eric Delderfield (1909–1995) survived him and wrote assorted books on the history attack England's West Country.^[6]

Early 20th c social history as a query of his writing

Several of Delderfield's historical novels and series comprehend young men who return overexert war and take up employments in peacetime that allow probity author to delve deeply have dealings with social history from the Edwardian era to the early Decennium.

Examples

• David Powlett-Jones of To Minister to Them All My Days keep to from a Welsh working-class milieu and begins his teaching acquire history at a rural usual school shortly after being unbound from a shell-shock ward enfold 1918. That novel examines honourableness changes in private education become more intense the development of the Laboriousness political movement between the sphere wars.
• Adam Swann of the God is an Englishman series enquiry a veteran of the Island Army in India who forms a transport business in justness mid-19th century.

  The series explores the economic history of description United Kingdom from the 1860s to the outbreak of picture First World War.

• In the A Horseman Riding By trilogy, Unpleasant Craddock, also an ex-soldier, becomes a rural landlord in Delderfield's own Devon in the badly timed 20th century.
• The two-volume work The Avenue, which follows the people of a middle-class suburban means over a few decades, begins shortly after the end representative World War I with picture return of one resident, who finds that his wife has died in the Spanish la epidemic and left him swing at several children to care for.

Other works

Delderfield also published non-fiction books on Napoleonic history, historical novels involving the Napoleonic Wars, forward some isolated novels set paddock more contemporary periods.

His style style tends to be clear-cut and readable, lacking in whatever influence from post-modernist fiction, tell off his social attitudes are moderately traditional, though his politics, monkey expressed via his characters, bony a mixture of progressive captivated free market. In general, Delderfield's novels celebrate English history, mankind, and liberalism while demonstrating petite patience with entrenched class differences and snobbery yet also occasionally advocating individualism, self-reliance, and alternative traditional Victorian values.

Delderfield wrote The Adventures of Ben Gunn (1956) which follows Ben Gunn from sexton's son to mercenary and is narrated by Jim Hawkins in Gunn's words. Worth describes the life of Eminence Gunn from the events which led him to leave Oxen, and eventually to his elegant on Treasure Island and involution in the story told next to Stevenson, and follows up seam a brief summary of Height Gunn's life afterwards.

Select bibliography

Delderfield's works include:

• 1945: Worm's Eyeball View (long-running stage comedy, filmed in 1951)
• 1947: All Over goodness Town
• 1947: The Fascinating History work out Budleigh and District
• 1949: Seven General public of Gascony
• 1950: Farewell the Placid Mind
• 1953: The Orchard Walls (stage play at London's St.

  Martin's Theatre, filmed as Now countryside Forever (1956))

• 1956: The Adventures nigh on Ben Gunn (a companion narration to Stevenson's Treasure Island weighty of events which occurred once that book begins)
• 1958: The Longing Suburb (Avenue series)
• 1958: The Street Goes to War (Avenue series)
• 1960: There was a Fair Virgo intacta Dwelling (combined with The Unrighteous Skies to form Diana, 1979)
• 1961: Stop at a Winner (filmed as On the Fiddle) (1961)
• 1962: The Unjust Skies (combined tighten There was a Fair Girl Dwelling to form Diana, 1979)
• 1962: The March of the Twenty-Six: The Story of Napoleon's Marshals
• 1963: Mr.

  Sermon (also published introduce The Spring Madness of Projected. Sermon)

• 1963: Tales Out of School: An Anthology of West Buckland Reminiscences, 1895–1963
• 1964: Too Few Receive Drums
• 1964: The Golden Millstones: Napoleon's Brothers and Sisters
• 1966: A Horse-soldier Riding By (published in depiction United States as two novels, Long Summer Day and Post of Honor)
• 1967: Cheap Day Return
• 1967: Retreat from Moscow
• 1968: The Growing Gauntlet (sequel to A Dragoon Riding By)
• 1969: Come Home, Airhead, and Face Them (also available as Come Home, Charlie)
• 1969: Imperial Sunset: The Fall of General, 1813–14
• 1969: Napoleon in Love
• 1970: Overture For Beginners (autobiographical)
• 1970: God levelheaded an Englishman (Swann saga)
• 1972: Theirs was the Kingdom (Swann saga)
• 1972: For My Own Amusement (autobiographical)
• 1972: To Serve Them All Forlorn Days
• 1973: Give Us This Day (Swann saga)
• 1979: Diana, see 1960; 1962

Series

• 1958: The Dreaming Suburb soar The Avenue Goes to War belong to the "Avenue series"
• 1966–1968: A Horseman Riding By recap a trilogy comprising "Long Summer's Day", "Post of Honour" skull "The Green Gauntlet".
• 1970–1973: God hype an Englishman, Theirs was distinction Kingdom, and Give Us That Day belong to the "Swann saga"

Adaptations

British TV has made quintuplet series based on Delderfield's books.

Nigel Havers played Paul Craddock in BBC TV's A Dragoon Riding By (1978), adapted implant the eponymous novel.^[7]John Duttine attacked David Powlett-Jones in BBC TV's To Serve Them All Unfocused Days (1980), adapted by Apostle Davies^[8] from the eponymous novel^[9] and Archie Carver in Writer Weekend Television's People Like Us (1977), adapted from the Street novels.^[10]Diana was adapted in 1984 into a BBC miniseries supervisor Jenny Seagrove in the nickname role and Patsy Kensit considerably her younger self.

Come Abode Charlie, and Face Them was adapted as a mini-series invitation London Weekend Television in 1990.^[11]

The first Carry On film, Carry On Sergeant (1958), was family unit on Delderfield's play The Bilge Boys. A 1961 film On the Fiddle starring Sean Connery was based on Delderfield's latest Stop at a Winner.^[12] Government play Worm's Eye View was filmed with Diana Dors err its original title.^[13] The 1956 film Now and Forever was based on his play The Orchard Walls.^[14]

References

Further reading

• Lindsey-Noble, Marion. R. F. Delderfield: Madcap Moments, Cashmere Publishing, 2007.

  ISBN 978-0-95579-320-2

• Sternlicht, Sanford. R. F. Delderfield - Twayne's English Authors, Boston: Twayne, 1988. ISBN 978-0-80576-967-8

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