Sunny Ducrow

Sunny Ducrow is a 1919 novel by English author Henry St. John Cooper. It follows Elizabeth Ann "Sunny" Ducrow, a happy-go-lucky teenager from the London slums who left her factory job to become a performer. Later in the novel, having gained wealth and fame, she rejected a noble lord for a less distinguished colleague.

Mary Cadogan considered it an "attractive account."[1] G. I. Colbron of Publishers Weekly praised the writing as "sincere and simple in style". The New York Times wrote: "In Sunny Ducrow Henry St. John barely escapes unwittingly surpassing the 'novels' that first established Stephen Leacock's reputation."[2]

In 1926, the novel was made into a Hollywood film, Sunny Side Up, starring Vera Reynolds as Sunny Ducrow.[3]

References
  1. Cadogan, Mary (1982). "Mabel St. John". In Vinson, James (ed.). Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan Publishers. p. 612. ISBN 978-1-349-06129-7.
  2. Reely, Mary Katharine; Rich, Pauline H., eds. (1921). The Book Review Digest, Sixteenth Annual Cumulation (Reviews of 1920 books). H. W. Wilson Company. p. 119.
  3. "Sunny Side Up (1926)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
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