Henry De Vere Stacpoole was an Irish author, born in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...

). His best known work is the 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon (novel)

The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1908. The novel is the first of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, the second being The Garden of God and the third being The Gates of Morning ....

, which has been adapted into feature film

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s on three occasions. He also wrote under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix.

A ship's doctor for more than forty years, Stacpoole was also an expert on the South Pacific

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 islands. His books frequently contained detailed descriptions of the natural life and civilizations with which he had become familiar on those islands.

He moved to the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

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 in the 1920s and lived there until his death. He was buried at Bonchurch

Bonchurch

Bonchurch is a small village to the East of Ventnor, on the southern part of theIsle of Wight, England. It is situated on The Undercliff, which itself is subject to regular landslips. A large section of the settlement is found in Upper Bonchurch, halfway up St Boniface Down on the main A3055 road...

 in 1951.

Works

• The Intended: A Novel (1894)
• Pierrot! A Story (novel) (1895)
• Death, the Knight, and the Lady: A Ghost Story (novel) (1897)
• The Doctor: A Study from Life (novel) (1899)
• The Rapin (novel) (1899), republished as Toto: A Parisian Sketch (1910)
• Feyshad (short children's story) (unknown), included in Poppyland (1914)
• The Little Prince (children's story) (unknown), included in Poppyland (1914)
• Pierrette
  Pierrette
  A Pierrette is, in the theatre, a female PierrotPierrette may also refer to:*Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze , French chemist and wife of Antoine Lavoisier...
  
   (children's stories) (1900), republished as Poppyland (1914)
• The Story of Abdul and Hafiz (short children's story) (unknown), included in Poppyland (1914)
• The Bourgeois (1901)
• The Lady-Killer (1902)
• Fanny Lambert: A Novel (1906)
• The Golden Astrolabe, co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1906)
• The Meddler: A Novel of Sorts, co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1907)
• The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel (1908)
• The Blue Lagoon
  The Blue Lagoon (novel)
  The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1908. The novel is the first of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, the second being The Garden of God and the third being The Gates of Morning ....
  
   (novel) (1908)
• The Cottage on the Fells (novel) (1908), republished as Murder on the Fell (1937)
• Patsy: A Story (novel) (1908)
• The Reavers: A Tale of Wild Adventure on the Moors of Lorne, co-authored by W. A. Bryce (1908)
• The Man Without a Head, under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix (1908)
• The Vulture's Prey, under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix (1908)
• Garryowen: The Romance of a Race-Horse (novel) (1909)
• The Pools of Silence (novel) (1909)
• The Drums of War (1910)
• Poems and Ballads (collection) (1910)
• The Cruise of the King Fisher: A Tale of Deep-Sea Adventure (1910)
• The Ship of Coral: A Tropical Romance (1911)
• The Order of Release (1912)
• The Street of the Flute-Player: A Romance (novel) (1912)
• Molly Beamish (1913)
• Bird Cay (1913)
• The Children of the Sea: A Romance (1913)
• The Poems of Francois Villon (translations) (1914)
• Father O'Flynn (1914)
• The New Optimism (1914)
• Monsieur de Rochefort: A Romance of Old Paris (1914), published in the U.S. as The Presentation (1914)
• The Blue Horizon: Romance from the Tropics and the Sea (1915)
• The North Sea and Other Poems (1915)
• The Pearl Fishers (1915)
• The Red Day (fictional diary) (1915)
• The Reef of Stars: A Romance of the Tropics (1916), published in the U.S. as The Gold Trail" (1916)
• Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion (1916)
• Francois Villon: His Life and Times, 1431-1463 (literary biography) (1916)
• In Blue Waters
  In Blue Waters
  In Blue Waters is a collection of 3 novellas and 8 short stories by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1917 by Hutchinson and Co, London. Collectiion includes the stories In Blue Waters, The Birth of Love, and The Luck of Captain Slocum....
  
   (1917)
• Sea Plunder (1917)
• The Starlit Garden: A Romance of the South (1917), published in the U.S. as The Ghost Girl (1918)
• The Willow Tree: The Romance of a Japanese Garden (1918)
• The Man Who Lost Himself (novel) (1918)
• The Beach of Dreams: A Story of the True World (1919)
• Under Blue Skies (1919)
• Sappho: A New Rendering (translations) (1920)
• A Man of the Islands (1920)
• Uncle Simon, co-authored by Margaret Stacpoole (1920), published in the U.S. as The Man Who Found Himself (1920)
• Satan: A Story of the Sea King's Country (1921)
• Men, Women, and Beasts (1922)
• Vanderdecken: The Story of a Man (1922)
• The Garden of God
  The Garden of God
  The Garden of God is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1923. It is the first sequel to his best-selling novel The Blue Lagoon , and continued with The Gates of Morning .-Plot summary:...
  
   (1923) (sequel to The Blue Lagoon)
• Golden Ballast (1924)
• Ocean Tramps (1924)
• The House of Crimson Shadows: A Romance (1925)
• The Gates of Morning
  The Gates of Morning
  The Gates of Morning is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1925. It is the third novel of the Blue Lagoon trilogy which began with The Blue Lagoon and continued with The Garden of God ....
  
   (1925) (sequel to The Garden of God)
• The City in the Sea (1925)
• Stories East and West: Tales of Men and Women (1926)
• The Mystery of Uncle Bollard (1927)
• Goblin Market: A Romance (novel) (1927)
• Tropic Love (1928)
• Roxanne (1928), published in the U.S. as The Return of Spring (1928)
• Eileen of the Trees (1929)
• The Girl of the Golden Reef: A Romance of the Blue Lagoon (1929)
• The Tales of Mynheer Amayat (1930)
• The Chank Shell: A Tropical Romance of Love and Treasure (1930), published in the U.S. as The Island of Lost Women (1930)
• Pacific Gold (1931)
• Love on the Adriatic (1932)
• The Lost Caravan (1932)
• Mandarin Gardens (1933)
• The Naked Soul: The Story of a Modern Knight (1933)
• The Blue Lagoon Omnibus (1933)
• The Vengeance of Mynheer Van Lok and Other Stories (1934)
• The Longshore Girl: A Romance (novel) (1935)
• Green Coral (a collection of stories) (1935)
• The Sunstone (1936)
• In a Bonchurch Garden: Poems and Translations (1937)
• Ginger Adams (1937)
• High-Yaller (1938)
• Old Sailors Never Lie and Other Tales of Land and Sea by One of Them (1938)
• Due East of Friday (1939)
• An American at Oxford (1941)
• Men and Mice, 1863-1942 (autobiography) (1942)
• Oxford Goes to War: A Novel (1943)
• More Men and Mice (autobiography) (1945)
• Harley Street: A Novel (1946)
• The Story of My Village (novel) (1947)
• The Land of Little Horses. A Story (novel) (1949)
• The Man in Armour (novel) (1949)

Sources

• E. A. Malone, "H. de Vere Stacpoole," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 153: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists, First Series, edited by G. M. Johnson, Detroit: Gale, 1995, pp. 278–287.
• R. F. Hardin, "The Man Who Wrote The Blue Lagoon: Stacpoole's Pastoral Center," English Literature in Transition (1880-1920), vol. 39, no. 2, 1996, pp. 205–20.
• C. Deméocq, "Henry de Vere Stacpoole aux Kerguelen," Carnets de l'Exotisme, vol. 17-18, 1996, pp. 151–52.

See also

• The Blue Lagoon
  The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)
  The Blue Lagoon is a 1949 British romance and adventure film produced and directed by Frank Launder, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston. The screenplay was adapted by John Baines, Michael Hogan and Frank Launder from the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole...
  
  , a 1949
  1949 in film
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello...
  
   film
• The Blue Lagoon
  The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
  The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romance and adventure film directed by Randal Kleiser. The screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart was based on the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The film stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins...
  
  , a 1980
  1980 in film
  - Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....
  
   film
• Return to the Blue Lagoon
  Return to the Blue Lagoon
  Return to the Blue Lagoon is a 1991 American romance and adventure film starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause, produced and directed by William A. Graham. The screenplay by Leslie Stevens was based on the novel The Garden of God by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The original music score was composed...
  
  , a 1991
  1991 in film
  The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...
  
  film

External links

• Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The Malvern Register 1865-1905, p. 150.