'DOROTHY
WHIPPLE
Novelist
lived here from 1926 to 1939
"the fullest years of
my life"'
This plaque is on a house on Ebers Road, Mapperley Park, Nottingham. Dorothy Whipple (1893-1966) was born in Blackburn, Lancashire (where she died), and her novels are essentially about northern middle-class families and were popular in the 1930s an 1940s. They received an injection of life this century by Persephone, although Carmen Callil, the founder of Virago, revealed in 2008 that her publishing house used an expression: 'Below the Whipple line': 'We had a limit known as the Whipple line, below which we would not sink.' But how does a person determine 'level', whatever such an abstract concept means in literature?
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