22 Facts About Eden Phillpotts

Eden Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist.

Eden Phillpotts 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.

Eden Phillpotts was a great-nephew of Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter.

Eden Phillpotts's 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.

Eden Phillpotts's 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 Eden Phillpotts died in 1865, leaving Adelaide a widow at the age of 21.

Eden Phillpotts found a job as a clerk with the Sun Fire Office.

Eden Phillpotts' ambition was to be an actor and he attended evening classes at a drama school for two years.

Eden Phillpotts came to the conclusion that he would never make a name as an actor but might have success as a writer.

Eden Phillpotts maintained a steady output of three or four books a year for the next half century.

Eden Phillpotts produced poetry, short stories, novels, plays and mystery tales.

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

Eden Phillpotts was for many years the President of the Dartmoor Preservation Association and cared passionately about the conservation of Dartmoor.

Eden Phillpotts was an agnostic and a supporter of the Rationalist Press Association.

Eden Phillpotts was a friend of Agatha Christie, who was an admirer of his work and a regular visitor to his home.

Eden Phillpotts 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.

Eden Phillpotts wrote a great many books with a Dartmoor setting.

Eden Phillpotts co-wrote several plays with his daughter Adelaide Phillpotts, The Farmer's Wife and Yellow Sands ; she later claimed their relationship was incestuous.

Eden Phillpotts is best known as the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor.

Eden Phillpotts wrote a number of other mystery novels, both under his own name and the pseudonym Harrington Hext.