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Stacpoole, H. de Vere
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER
Stacpoole, H. de Vere ( Henry de Vere Stacpoole )
(1963–1951) is remembered for his best-selling romance The Blue Lagoon (1908), the story of two cousins, Dick and Emmeline, marooned at the age of eight on a tropical island; they grow up, produce a baby, and are eventually swept away across their lagoon to the ocean and the oblivion of ‘the never-wake berries’ which they providentially carry with them in their dinghy.Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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