Hugh Walpole

One review discerned a possible influence from Dorothy Richardson , but thought EHY (whom it supposed to be male) a saner person than Richardson (whom it knew to be female).Virginia Woolf (who had...

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...

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 and my dog...

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)...

A reader at Curtis Brown praised DW 's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell at John Murray wrote: Much her best work and the former was good.

Colonel and Mrs Williams , the owners of Parciau, were far from pleased at finding themselves and their lives portrayed in fiction. The novel, however, was again a Book Society Choice. It was...

Virginia Woolf judged it to be in a different and higher league than the novels of Hugh Walpole , although produced, like ornamental porcelain, according to a convention which was tight and affected and occasionally...

RW 's papers are located at the McFarlin Library in the University of Tulsa and in the Beinecke Library at Yale . In 1945 Marie Belloc Lowndes indignantly contradicted Hugh Walpole 's portrayal of...

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

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 She employed the form in Christine (1917), as well as in several unpublished experiments.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...

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...

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 .

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 .

This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole regretted its lack of plot.James Agate uncharacteristically wrote: All the time I was reading it I purred like my...