Editing Eden Phillpotts (section)

==Writings==
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Phillpotts wrote a great many books with a Dartmoor setting. One of his novels, ''[[Widecombe Fair (novel)|Widecombe Fair]]'' (1913), inspired by an annual [[Widecombe Fair|fair]] at the village of [[Widecombe-in-the-Moor]], provided the scenario for his comic play ''[[The Farmer's Wife (play)|The Farmer's Wife]]'' (1916). It went on to become a 1928 silent [[The Farmer's Wife|film of the same name]], directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]. It was followed by a [[The Farmer's Wife (1941 film)|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4417928/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1|title=The Farmer's Wife (TV Movie 1955) - IMDb|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> The BBC had broadcast the play in 1934.

He co-wrote several plays with his daughter [[Adelaide Phillpotts]],<ref name="Head2006">{{cite book|editor-last=Head|editor-first=Dominic|title=The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQINrHtwNU0C&pg=PA868|year=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83179-6|page=868}}</ref> ''The Farmer's Wife'' and ''[[Yellow Sands (play)|Yellow Sands]]'' (1926);<ref>I. Ousby ed., ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1995) p. 735</ref> she later claimed their relationship was incestuous.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=George M.|title=Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: First series|date=1995|publisher=Gale Research Incorporated|isbn=9780810357143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IO9DHjMx2y4C|language=en}}</ref><ref name=ade/> 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''<ref>Philpotts, Eden; The Human Boy; Pub: Harper & Brothers, 1899.</ref> 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 (novel)|Saurus]]'', which involves an alien reptilian observing human life.

[[Eric Partridge]] praised the immediacy and impact of his dialect writing.<ref>Eric Partridge, ''Usage and Abusage'' (1964) p. 96</ref>