Hugh Walpole

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...