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Walpole's "genial and attractive appearance, his complete lack of aloofness, his exciting fluency as a speaker his obvious and genuine liking for his hosts" combined to win him a large American following. The success of his talks led to increases in his lecturing fees, greatly enhanced sales of his books, and large sums from American publishers anxious to print his latest fiction. He was a prodigiously quick writer who seldom revised, but pressed on, keen to get his ideas down on paper. His main British publishers, Macmillan, found it expedient to appoint a senior member of staff to edit his manuscripts, correcting spelling, punctuation, inconsistencies and errors of historical fact. His fluency enabled him to fulfil between tours a contract from
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1537:, who had known Walpole personally. It was regarded at the time as "among the half dozen best biographies of the century" and has been reissued several times since its first publication. Writing when homosexual acts between men were still outlawed in England, Hart-Davis avoided direct mention of his subject's sexuality, so respecting Walpole's habitual discretion and the wishes of his brother and sister. He left readers to read between the lines if they wished, in, for example, references to Turkish baths "providing informal opportunities of meeting interesting strangers". Hart-Davis dedicated the book to "Dorothy, Robin and Harold", Walpole's sister, brother, and long-term companion.
1192:... by immediate financial assistance, by prefaces freely supplied or by collaboration volunteered, by introductions and recommendations to likely publishers, Walpole relieved the distresses of authorship to a degree which will never be fully known." Agate, though himself the recipient of Walpole's generosity on occasion, thought it sometimes went too far: "Mr Walpole's large-heartedness gets him into all kinds of trouble. He is an inveterate patter. He pats on the back young men whom sterner critics would knock down, because even in fantastic incompetence he perceives the good intention. No art or artist is safe from Mr Walpole's benevolence".
1009:. He enjoyed many aspects of life in Hollywood, but as one who rarely revised any of his own work he found it tedious to produce sixth and seventh drafts at the behest of the studio. He enjoyed his brief change of role from writer to bit-part player: in the film he played the Vicar of Blunderstone delivering a boring sermon that sends David to sleep. Agate was doubtful of the wisdom of this: "Does not Hugh see that to bring a well-known character from real life into an imaginary sequence of events is to destroy the reality of that imaginary sequence?" Nevertheless, Walpole's performance was a success. He improvised the sermon; the producer,
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1345:, and rated her as an influence; she praised his gift for seizing on telling detail: "it is no disparagement to a writer to say that his gift is for the small things rather than for the large ... If you are faithful with the details the large effects will grow inevitably out of those very details". Joseph Conrad said of him, "We see Mr. Walpole grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his characteristic earnestness, and we can discern the characteristics of this acute and sympathetic explorer of human nature." In 1928 Priestley observed,
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in field hospitals and retrieving the dead and wounded from the battlefield. Occasionally he found time to write brief letters home; he told
Bennett, "A battle is an amazing mixture of hell and a family picnic – not as frightening as the dentist, but absorbing, sometimes thrilling like football, sometimes dull like church, and sometimes simply physically sickening like bad fish. Burying dead afterwards is worst of all." When disheartened he comforted himself with the thought, "This is not so bad as it was at Marlow".
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over and over again, was the opposite of
Walpole's hastily written and seldom-revised prose. He also viewed Walpole's sensitivity to criticism as absurd. Walpole was not always as oversensitive as Wodehouse supposed. The critic James Agate was a friend despite his regular rude remarks about Walpole's prose, and when Walpole discovered that Agate had written a spoof of the Herries "Lakeland" style, he made him promise to print it in the next published volume of his diaries.
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1671:(1914) are of interest as demonstrating what became permanent tendencies in his more mature work. He would over-labour a single character as a somewhat nebulous symbol: he would strive to portray a mortal presentation of evil; he could catch the décors of life with instinctive precision: and, being a genuine lover of books for their own sake and a voracious reader, he never failed to make apt use of recollected reading." The other pre-war novel was
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322:. Walpole's religious beliefs, hitherto an unquestioned part of his life, were fading, and Benson helped him through that personal crisis. Walpole was also attempting to cope with his homosexual feelings, which for a while focused on Benson, who recorded in his diary in 1906 an unexpected outburst by his young admirer: "e broke out rather eagerly into protestations – He cared for me more than anyone in the world. I could not believe it
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624:, which he preferred) were not enough to stop hostile comments at home that he was not doing his bit for the war effort. Henry James was so incensed at one such remark by a prominent London hostess that he stormed out of her house and wrote to Walpole suggesting that he should return to England. Walpole replied in great excitement that he had just been appointed as a Russian officer, in the Sanitar:
864:, and was known in Bayreuth as "one of Winnie's lame ducks." Walpole later admitted that he had both despised and liked him – "both emotions that time has proved I was wrong to indulge". This and future visits to Bayreuth were complicated by the fact that Winifred Wagner fell in love with Walpole, and attached herself so firmly to him that rumours began to spread.
369:... I should call him curiously unperceptive. He does not, for instance, see what may vex or hurt or annoy people. I think he is rather tactless – though he is himself very sensitive. The strong points about him are his curiosity, his vitality, his eagerness, and the emotional fervour of his affections. But he seems to me in no way likely to be great as an artist.
591:. It was a very lengthy article, to the extent that it had to be spread across two issues of the Supplement in March and April 1914. James said that agreeing to write it had been "an insensate step", but from Walpole's point of view it was highly satisfactory: one of the greatest living authors had publicly ranked him among the finest young British novelists.
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and early editions, and constantly reread the novels. With the
Herries stories Walpole restored the popularity of the historical novel, a form for which Scott was famous but which had been out of fashion for decades. The Herries series begins in the 18th century and follows a Lakeland family through the generations up to modern times.
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Wodehouse wrote to a friend, "I can't remember if I ever told you about meeting Hugh when I was at Oxford getting my D.Litt. I was staying with the Vice-Chancellor at
Magdalen and he blew in and spent the day. It was just after Hilaire Belloc had said that I was the best living English writer. It was
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Walpole had fulfilled his early potential, unlike Compton Mackenzie, Gilbert Cannan and other promising young novelists of his generation. This view was not universal among critics: Walpole sometimes divided opinion. Writing of Walpole's Russian novels the contemporary critic
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Hollywood in 1936. When he got there he found that the studio executives had no idea which films they wanted him to work on, and he had eight weeks of highly paid leisure, during which he wrote a short story and worked on a novel. He was eventually asked to write the
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Benson gently declined Walpole's advances. They remained friends, but Walpole, rebuffed in his "excessive desire to be loved", turned the full force of his enthusiasms elsewhere, and the relationship with Benson became less important to him. Less than two years later Benson's diary entry on Walpole's
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Though Walpole was no admirer of the schools he had attended there, the cathedral cities of Truro, Canterbury and Durham made a strong impression on him. He drew on aspects of them for his fictional cathedral city of Polchester in Glebeshire, the setting of many of his later books. Walpole's memories
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Agate's parody, duly printed at Walpole's insistence, began: "'Twas early morn. The dew was still on the grass, and the grass was still underneath the dew. Presently the sun would get hotter and there would be no more dew. But the grass would remain. When the dew had gone the grass would be dry, and
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Maugham assured Walpole that he was not the model for Alroy Kear, who, Maugham averred, was chiefly based on himself. After Walpole's death Maugham admitted that this was a lie. Maugham's biographer Selina Hastings quotes a contemporary's view that Kear was Maugham's revenge on Walpole for "a stolen
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In 1972 Elizabeth Steele's study of Walpole was published. Much shorter than Hart-Davis's biography, at 178 pages to his 503, it dealt mainly with the novels, and aimed "to show the sources of Hugh Walpole's success as a writer during the thirty-five years and fifty books of his busy career". Steele
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Walpole returned to Petrograd in February 1916. He moved into Somov's flat, and his Anglo-Russian Propaganda Bureau began work. The following month he suffered a personal blow: he recorded in his diary for 13 March 1916, "Thirty two to-day! Should have been a happy day but was completely clouded for
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that deserves to be remembered for its own sake. The book, subtitled "a tragi-comedy", is a psychological study of a deadly clash between two schoolmasters, one an ageing failure and the other a young, attractive idealist. In the view of Hart-Davis, Walpole only once recaptured "the fresh, clear cut
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Mildred Walpole found it hard to settle in New Zealand, and something of her restlessness and insecurity affected the character of her eldest child. In 1889, two years after the birth of the couple's daughter, Dorothea ("Dorothy"), Somerset Walpole accepted a prominent and well-paid academic post at
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in 1895, where he was bullied, frightened and miserable. He later said, "The food was inadequate, the morality was 'twisted', and Terror – sheer, stark unblinking Terror – stared down every one of its passages ... The excessive desire to be loved that has always played so enormous a part in my
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as the best English writer of their day, Walpole took it amiss, to the amusement of Wodehouse who regarded Belloc's plaudit as "a gag, to get a rise out of serious-minded authors whom he disliked". Wodehouse was not a great admirer of Walpole; his own scrupulous craftsmanship, with drafts polished
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Walpole, though he was devoted to the works of Trollope, and published a study of him, thought that there was no real comparison between the two of them: "I am far too twisted and fantastic a novelist ever to succeed in catching Trollope's marvellous normality." Priestley was less impressed by the
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During his career contemporaries saw both negative and positive sides to Walpole's outgoing nature and desire to be in the public eye. Wodehouse commented, "I always think Hugh Walpole's reputation was two thirds publicity. He was always endorsing books and speaking at lunches and so on." On the
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commented, "Russia has been the grave of many reputations; and our Napoleon of the drawing-room novel has fared no better than other would-be conquerors of that disconcerting land." Goldring's complaint was that Walpole's Russian (and English) characters were clichéd stereotypes. The reviewer in
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With Benson's help, Walpole had come to terms with the loss of his faith. Somerset Walpole, himself the son of an Anglican priest, hoped that his eldest son would follow him into the ministry. Walpole was too concerned for his father's feelings to tell him he was no longer a believer, and on
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Walpole later wrote of James, "I loved him, was frightened of him, was bored by him, was staggered by his wisdom and stupefied by his intricacies, altogether enslaved by his kindness, generosity, child-like purity of his affections, his unswerving loyalties, his sly and Puck-like sense of
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s estimation of Walpole was no higher than, "he had a versatile imagination; he could tell a workmanlike story in good workmanlike English; and he was a man of immense industry, conscientious and painstaking". The belittling tone of the obituary brought forth strong rebuttals from
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at Epsom for many years. This was of no practical consequence, as he had no intention of returning to the teaching profession, but it was an early illustration of his capacity, noted by Benson, for unthinkingly giving offence, though being hypersensitive to criticism himself.
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After the outbreak of the Second World War Walpole remained in England, dividing his time between London and Keswick, and continuing to write with his usual rapidity. He completed a fifth novel in the Herries series and began work on a sixth. His health was undermined by
1932:(November 2013) lists reissues in 1962 (Harcourt Brace, New York), 1963 (Rupert Hart-Davis, London) and 1980 (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn), and a new edition in 1980 (Hamish Hamilton, London), reissued in 1985 (Hamish Hamilton) and 1997 (Phoenix Mill, Stroud, UK).
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Walpole wrote in 1939, "That I love Cumberland with all my heart and soul is another reason for my pleasure in writing these Herries books. That I wasn't born a Cumbrian isn't my fault: that Cumbrians, in spite of my 'foreignness', have been so kind to me, is my good
715:. He wrote an official report on events for the Foreign Office, and also absorbed ideas for his fiction. In addition to the first of his popular "Jeremy" novels, written in his spare time from the bureau, he began work on the second of his Russian-themed books,
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is a kind of story he might have told, with its realistic melodrama and its clerical atmosphere, but Walpole tells it with a subtler art in the writing and the construction, with a conciseness and charm of style that are outside the range of the earlier
1089:. He overexerted himself at the opening of Keswick's fund-raising "War Weapons Week" in May 1941, making a speech after taking part in a lengthy march, and died of a heart attack at Brackenburn, aged 57. He is buried in St John's churchyard in Keswick.
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in 1927. Sadleir, writing in the 1950s, suggests that "the most real Walpole of all – because the most unselfconscious, kindly, and understanding friend – is the Walpole of the Jeremy trilogy." Of his other novels of the 1920s
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746:. Soon after returning he volunteered for the British Army, but, as expected, failed the necessary medical examination because of his poor sight. He continued to work in British propaganda when the department was reconstituted under
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During an engagement early in June 1915 Walpole single-handedly rescued a wounded soldier; his Russian comrades refused to help and Walpole carried one end of a stretcher and dragged the man to safety. For this he was awarded the
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and Walpole, concluding that the former was the better man, the latter a better writer and both were classics. Walpole could be sensitive about his literary reputation and often took adverse criticism badly. When
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Elizabeth Steele summed up: "His psychology was not deep enough for the polemicist, his diction not free enough for those returning from war, and his zest disastrous to a public wary of personal commitment".
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looked back on this article as "a piece of literary criticism so involved, so inscrutable, that some of the writers it dealt with do not know to this day whether he was praising them or blaming them."
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976:: the character Alroy Kear, a superficial novelist of more pushy ambition than literary talent, was widely taken to be based on Walpole. In the same year Walpole wrote possibly his best-known work,
902:, was his main home for the rest of his life. He was quickly made welcome by local residents, and the scenery and atmosphere of the Lake District often found their way into his fiction. The critic
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953:(1928), his first attempt at a full-length love story, portrays a clash between traditionalism and modernism: his own sympathies, though not spelled out, were clearly with the traditionalists.
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other hand, Walpole stood out as one of the few literary figures willing to go into court and give evidence for the defence at the obscenity trial after the 1928 lesbian novel by
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as "a simple shocker which it has amused me like anything to write, and won't bore you to read." In contrast he continued a series of stories for children, begun in 1919 with
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me by reading in the papers of Henry James' death. This was a terrible shock to me." Walpole remained at the bureau for the rest of 1916 and most of 1917, witnessing the
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is realism, profound in its philosophy and delicate in its thread."
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boyfriend, an unrequited love and an old canker of jealousy".
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Howard, John. "Against the Spirit: A Look at Hugh Walpole's
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1971:, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 23 November 2013
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Walpole, Hugh. "Why didn't I put Poison in his Coffee?"
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in 1924 and succeeding years. Walpole attended, and met
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People educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
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website celebrating the life and works of Hugh Walpole
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Poesio, Giannandrea; Weedon, Alexis (24 March 2016).
3712:. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
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3786:Hemingway, Ernest (1987) . "The Three Day Blow".
2987:, British Film Institute, accessed 7 January 2014
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4361:People educated at The King's School, Canterbury
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3506:A Shorter Ego – The Autobiography of James Agate
3489:(third ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston.
3390:, Theatre by the Lake, accessed 31 December 2013
1283:Walpole's debt to Henry James is discernible in
1249:). He wrote literary biographies (Conrad, 1916;
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4326:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
4025:(1956). "Biography". In Lehmann, John (ed.).
3867:Lyttelton, George; Rupert Hart-Davis (1984).
3548:Alexander, Ted; Tatiana Verizhnikova (2003).
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4451:New Zealand LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights
4262:Paintings and drawings bequeathed by Walpole
4029:The Craft of Letters in England: A Symposium
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3567:Boone, Joseph; Michael Cadden, eds. (2012).
3401:"Author Hugh Walpole comes in from the cold"
3141:Agate, James. "Adventure, Mystery, Murder",
3107:"Hugh Walpole Exhibition of Art in London",
2954:Steele (2006), p. 85; and Hart-Davis, p. 351
1920:Susan Saddleback would be able to sit down."
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4356:New Zealand emigrants to the United Kingdom
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4007:. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
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3676:. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd.
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1478:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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3826:James, Henry (1914). "The New Novel".
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4188:Works by Hugh Walpole in eBook form
3752:. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton.
3613:. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
3552:. Fareham, Hampshire: Portchester.
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4386:20th-century New Zealand novelists
4177:No 3 (Autumn 2004), pp. 33–40
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3066:Clark, Sir Kenneth. "Obituaries",
2752:Brown, Ivor. "Polchester Towers",
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4143:Rupert Hart-Davis, Man of Letters
3692:Reputations – Essays in Criticism
2678:"First Canadian in the Cabinet",
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4366:People educated at Truro School
3483:Adcock, Arthur St John (1923).
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3460:Steele (1972), author's preface
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4351:Members of the Detection Club
4147:. London: Chatto and Windus.
3886:Maugham, W. Somerset (1950).
2626:"Tait Black Memorial Prize",
1987:"Obituary – Bishop Walpole",
1863:(unfinished, published 1943).
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680:, Petrograd correspondent of
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556:The Times Literary Supplement
453:A. C. Benson was a friend of
211:The King's School, Canterbury
159:St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland
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3962:The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
3848:; Rupert Hart-Davis (1978).
3813:. Los Angeles: John Howell.
3748:Hart-Davis, Rupert (1997) .
3695:. London: Chapman and Hall.
2103:Walpole, Hugh. "Childhood",
1975:UK public library membership
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918:Walpole at Brackenburn, 1929
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178:General Theological Seminary
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4416:British ghost story writers
4346:New Zealand LGBTQ novelists
4231:(public domain audiobooks)
3944:. London: St. James Press.
3586:Buitenhuis, Peter (1989) .
3226:obituary, 2 June 1941, p. 6
3035:Hart-Davis, pp. 428 and 443
2855:Hart-Davis, pp. 351 and 368
2767:The Illustrated London News
2743:Hart-Davis, pp. 190 and 192
2559:Hart-Davis, pp. 136 and 143
2550:Hart-Davis, pp. 139 and 143
2267:Hart-Davis, pp. 163 and 202
2149:Contemporary Authors Online
2117:"Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour"
1291:(1917), but in the view of
814:The Illustrated London News
521:The San Francisco Chronicle
350:. He dines every week with
342:He seems to have conquered
300:Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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4003:Steele, Elizabeth (2006).
3980:Steele, Elizabeth (1972).
3933:University of Bedfordshire
3727:Hamann, Brigitte (2005) .
3689:Goldring, Douglas (1920).
3475:
3422:"Hugh Walpole: a biography
2769:, 11 November 1922, p. 766
2532:in Hart-Davis, pp. 141–142
1688:For the American edition,
1396:: Montagne-Sainte-Victoire
1206:
1142:Jesus washing Peter's feet
105:writing scenarios for two
85:he settled in the English
4275:Jean Hersholt Collections
4033:. London: Cresset Press.
3767:Hastings, Selina (2009).
3672:French, R. D. B. (1966).
3312:Agate (1976), pp. 123–124
2648:, accessed 7 January 2014
2642:"James Tait Black Prizes"
2617:Walpole (1932), pp. 52–53
2107:, Volume 56, 1924, p. 294
1463:By the time of his death
1209:Hugh Walpole bibliography
1109:, including paintings by
1092:
848:engaged Melchior for the
263:. Walpole wrote in 1924:
251:and many of the works of
217:King's School, Canterbury
4171:The Killer and the Slain
4139:Ziegler, Philip (2004).
3807:Hopkins, Ernest (1920).
3649:Edel, Leon, ed. (1984).
3184:Steele (1972), pp. 95–97
2632:, 18 January 1921, p. 13
2392:Steele (1972), pp. 37–38
2371:, 15 February 1911, p. 5
2190:Newsome, pp. 177 and 207
2009:Hart-Davis, pp. 8 and 10
1673:The Prelude to Adventure
1601:Sexual Offences Act 1967
1239:, 1942); ghost stories (
1236:The Killer and the Slain
1202:
376:Mersey Mission to Seamen
115:1935 film adaptation of
36:Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole
4421:English LGBTQ novelists
4406:English mystery writers
3965:. New York: Doubleday.
3959:Souhami, Diana (1999).
3940:Pringle, David (1996).
3907:. London: John Murray.
3903:Newsome, David (1980).
3871:. London: John Murray.
3852:. London: John Murray.
3771:. London: John Murray.
3611:The Duff Cooper Diaries
3369:"The Walpole Chronicle"
3261:, 9 February 1919, p. 4
3158:The Manchester Guardian
3123:Hart-Davis, pp. 325–326
3082:The Manchester Guardian
3057:Hart-Davis, pp. 443–444
3017:Hart-Davis, pp. 401–402
2975:Hart-Davis, pp. 374–375
2899:Maugham, preface, p. ix
2868:, 12 October 1924, p. 4
2833:Agate, James. "Books",
2756:, 13 October 1922, p. 7
2754:The Manchester Guardian
2646:University of Edinburgh
2608:Gunter and Jobe, p. 176
2502:Hart-Davis, pp. 128–133
2475:Hart-Davis, pp. 110–112
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2383:in Steele (2006), p. 19
2369:The Manchester Guardian
2358:, 5 February 1911, p. 5
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2258:Gunter and Jobe, p. 204
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1837:Vanessa: Her Love Story
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537:Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
515:The Manchester Guardian
502:Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
494:Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
419:Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
67:Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
4411:English horror writers
4396:English male novelists
4285:The Walpole Chronicles
4244:Photography Collection
4124:. London: Hutchinson.
4122:Wodehouse on Wodehouse
4103:Walpole, Hugh (1939).
4082:Walpole, Hugh (1932).
4065:Walpole, Hugh (1924).
4046:Sutton, Denys (1979).
3792:. New York: Scribner.
3789:Complete Short Stories
3628:Driberg, Tom (1978) .
3386:1 January 2014 at the
3244:"Our Booking Office",
3160:, 5 August 1949, p. 3.
2890:, 16 March 1928, p. 20
2824:Walpole (1939), p. vii
2790:John O'London's Weekly
2484:Cooper, pp. 46 and 470
1826:British Film Institute
1690:The Gods and Mr Perrin
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4107:. London: Macmillan.
3605:Cooper, Duff (2005).
3523:Agate, James (1976).
3502:Agate, James (1945).
3085:, 4 August 1941, p. 2
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2837:, 3 March 1938, p. 10
2806:Hamann, pp. 49 and 99
2797:in Hart-Davis, p. 264
2716:, 21 March 1918, p. 9
2703:in Hart-Davis, p. 176
2590:in Hart-Davis, p. 149
2240:Hart-Davis, pp. 55–62
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1991:, 6 March 1929, p. 21
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3098:12 March 1937, p. 10
3008:Driberg, pp. 110–111
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2725:Steele (2006), p. 11
2520:Steele (1972), p. 71
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2082:Walpole (1932), p. 3
2073:Steele (1972), p. 19
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1857:The Bright Pavilions
1669:The Duchess of Wrexe
1549:Notes and references
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1285:The Duchess of Wrexe
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4240:Hugh Walpole Papers
3607:John Julius Norwich
3257:"The Secret City",
3235:Goldring, pp. 54–58
3070:, 4 June 1941, p. 7
3048:, 2 June 1941, p. 1
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2793:, 11 October 1940,
2452:The English Journal
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3988:. London: Twayne.
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2493:Hart-Davis, p. 117
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