The Water Gipsies (novel)

{{Short description|1930 novel}}

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| author = A. P. Herbert

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| language = English

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| genre = Comedy/Romance

| publisher = Methuen (UK)
Grosset & Dunlap (US)

| release_date = 1930

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The Water Gipsies is a romantic comedy novel by British writer A. P. Herbert first published in 1930. It portrays the adventures of Jane Bell and her sister Lily, who operate a barge along England's rivers and canals. Jane enjoys several romantic entanglements during the story.

The novel is Herbert's best-known work, and reflected his lifelong love of British waterways.{{cite book|first=Dominic|last=Head|title=The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2006|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000unse_r1h5/page/509 509]|isbn=978-0-521-83179-6|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000unse_r1h5/page/509}} He lived in Hammersmith Terrace, and a thinly disguised version of The Dove pub appears as The Pigeons.{{cite book|first=Stuart|last=Fisher|title=The Rivers of Britain: Estuaries, Tideways, Havens, Lochs, Firths and Kyles|publisher=Adlard Coles Nautical|date=2012|page=217|isbn=978-1-408-14656-9}}