Hugh Walpole

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Standard Name: Walpole, Hugh

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Richardson
DR also accepted financial assistance from friends and other sources. Early in their friendship Bryher established a trust fund that yielded Richardson £250 annually. She also committed £120, tax free, to Richardson for each year...
Textual Production Rebecca West
RW 's papers are located at the McFarlin Library in the University of Tulsa and in the Beinecke Library at Yale .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
384
In 1945 Marie Belloc Lowndes indignantly contradicted Hugh Walpole 's portrayal of...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher , H. D. , Sylvia Beach , Amy Catherine (Jane)
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
She had been working on it, and reading it aloud to her husband, by the end of 1917. George Moore , too, read it before publication and suggested the incorporation of a real-life incident which...
Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD published the critical work Tradition and Hugh Walpole, in which she offered her views on the modern novel in English.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
10: 134
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
(1929): 228
Textual Features Stella Gibbons
Such earthy regionalists—who include Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence , as well as Webb and Kaye-Smith —become the butt of SG 's satire in Cold Comfort Farm.
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
66, 112
Reggie Oliver suggests that...
Textual Features Stella Gibbons
The title page quotes Sir Thomas Browne and Hans Christian Andersen 's The Snow Queen, and the book is loosely based on the fairy tale. The autobiographical heroine, Amy, is an aspiring writer working...
Textual Features Una Troubridge
UT wrote much of her 1914 diary in Italian. After 1915, her diaries document her relationship with Radclyffe Hall , touching on the two women's health, families, travels, and social activities. She also writes about...
Textual Features Elizabeth von Arnim
She played with the epistolary form at several points throughout her writing career. She employed the form in Christine (1917), as well as in several unpublished experiments. For these experiments she recruited male writers such...
Reception Vita Sackville-West
Woolf reported reading the novel all in a gulp with pleasure in bed; very well done I think.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
5: 214
It was a Book Society Choice, recommended by Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole , and...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
Her publisher Richard Church of Dent had organised a group of people, including novelist Hugh Walpole , to write on her behalf to Prime Minister Chamberlain . The pension allowed Richardson and her husband relief...
Reception Virginia Woolf
Woolf's attitude to this honour (which, however, was unusual in that she did not decline it) remained deprecating and satirical. She called it the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
3: 479
and my dog...
Publishing Vita Sackville-West
Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC : on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 261
She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...
Performance of text Louise Page
Another theatrical adaptation by LP , Rogue Herries (from Hugh Walpole 's novel of the same title, 1930, the first in a series of four that make up the Herries Chronicles) opened at Keswick...
Literary responses Gertrude Stein
GS 's writing has been ruffling critics since Laura Riding wrote in 1927 of her literalism, simple-mindedness, and successful barbarism.
Hoffmann, Michael J. “Gertrude Stein in the Psychology Laboratory”. American Quarterly, Vol.
17
, No. 1, pp. 127-32.
130
In 1945 Hugh Walpole painted Stein as a self-adoring priestess of her own...

Timeline

1921: Hugh Walpole founded the Society of Book...

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1921

Hugh Walpole founded the Society of Bookmen .

By April 1929: The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold...

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By April 1929

The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold Bennett ) was launched by Hugh Walpole with himself as chairman; it was the first such society in Britain.

After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...

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After February 1932

An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk 's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.

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