Hugh Walpole

She dedicated this book to her sister, Gwen , and quoted Hugh Walpole as her epigraph.

Violet Keppel (later VT ) and Vita Sackville-West went together to Polperro in Cornwall. They stayed at a fisherman's cottage lent to them by novelist Hugh Walpole .

Versions of VW appeared in many writings by other authors both during and after her own lifetime. On 8 March 1928, Vita Sackville-West informed her that Phyllis Bottome (a popular author and great Woolf fan)...

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...

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 .

Since VW moved in a variety of social circles, her range of literary acquaintance was very wide. Her associates included such established, celebrated writers as Thomas Hardy and Henry James , popular authors such as...

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.

At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA employed the first of a series of Cambridge tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole .

Of the tutors Charles Erskine Stuart became her admirer; E. M. Forster discussed novel-writing with her; and Hugh Walpole became her life-long friend. She invited Forster to Nassenheide on the recommendation of her nephew Sydney Waterlow

Violet Keppel (later VT ) became acquainted, initially through her mother 's connections, with Diaghilev , Nijinsky , and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina , as well as authors George Moore and Hugh Walpole .

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. Recounting a night out on the...

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 ...

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

In a lamentable 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...