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A.E. Coppard | Short story writer, Poet, Novelist | Britannica
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| Alfred Edgar Coppard (4 January 1878 – 13 January 1957) was an English author, noted for his short stories, many of which had rural settings. |
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- From the start of his career, A. E. Coppard was compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and D. H. Lawrence, and was viewed as Chekhov’s and Maupassant’s legitimate British heir.
A. E. Coppard
English writer
Alfred Edgar Coppard (4 January 1878 – 13 January 1957) was an English author, noted for his short stories, many of which had rural settings. Largely self-taught, he was championed by Ford Madox Ford and Arnold Bennett, among others, in his lifetime, and more recently by Frank O’Connor, Doris Lessing and Russell Banks. Some of his stories were dramatised for British television in the 1960s and 1970s.
Life
Coppard was born the son of a tailor and a housemaid in Folkestone and had little formal education.[1] He grew up in difficult, poverty-stricken circumstances; he later described his childhood as "shockingly poor" and Frank O'Connor described Coppard's early life as 'cruel'.[2] He quit school at the age of nine when his father died and was "taken off to London" to live with his uncle's family in "a street between Old Ford and Victoria Park".[3] He first worked as an errand boy for a tailor, then