Hugh Walpole

GS 's writing has been ruffling critics since Laura Riding wrote in 1927 of her literalism, simple-mindedness, and successful barbarism. In 1945 Hugh Walpole painted Stein as a self-adoring priestess of her own...

Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs , Barry Pain , Jerome K. Jerome , Hugh Walpole , and Ernest Temple Thurston . Pett Ridge (P...

Woolf reported reading the novel all in a gulp with pleasure in bed; very well done I think. It was a Book Society Choice, recommended by Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole , and...

Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC : on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society. She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...

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...

George Moore and Hugh Walpole both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad and Emily Brontë .Again VSW 's mother weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband envisaged for her...

NRS was a close friend of Rose Macaulay , with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...

During her first visit to Cornwall DR met and became friendly with novelist Hugh Walpole , who was there on holiday.

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...

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)

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...

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...

After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...

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...

At this time Hugh Walpole called her one of the best half-dozen younger women writers now writing in England.