Hugh Walpole

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Standard Name: Walpole, Hugh

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Literary responses Marjorie Bowen
MB was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain , Walter de la Mare , Compton Mackenzie , and Hugh Walpole , who...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
In a lamentable
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
217
article on the death of Virginia Woolf , Hugh Walpole accused literary ladies of acting like priestesses engaged in throwing fragrant incense on their own altars. The first name he mentions...
Dedications Richmal Crompton
She dedicated this book to her sister, Gwen , and quoted Hugh Walpole as her epigraph.
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
Friends, Associates Clemence Dane
After the death of Ethel M. M. McKenna (editor of The Woman's Library, 1903), CD became the closest woman friend of the novelist Hugh Walpole .
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan.
143
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...
Friends, Associates Nina Hamnett
At this time NH also became acquainted through a mutual friend with the writer Arthur Ransome ; he fondly nicknamed her Ham or Mademoiselle de Jambon.
Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.
23
Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited.
23
Recounting a night out on the...
Friends, Associates Violet Hunt
VH entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D. , D. H. Lawrence , Ezra Pound , Joseph Conrad , Wyndham Lewis , Walter de la Mare ...
Literary responses Molly Keane
At this time Hugh Walpole called her one of the best half-dozen younger women writers now writing in England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses Rosamond Lehmann
Given both the nature of the central event—a ball—and Olivia's youthful enthusiasm, the novel has been compared to Katherine Mansfield 's short story Her First Ball. It was an immediate success with the reviewers...
Literary responses Katherine Mansfield
After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 7, pp. 25-6.
25
KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...
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...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Richardson
During her first visit to Cornwall DR met and became friendly with novelist Hugh Walpole , who was there on holiday.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
63
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...

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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