The Hugh Walpole Society

The Hugh Walpole Society was formally launched on 1 January 2020. Its goal is to bring the work of this long-neglected author, who enjoyed enormous popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, and whose books once sold thousands of copies, back into the limelight, and hopefully to get more people reading and enjoying his stories once more.

The Society publishes a journal, The Hugh Walpole Review, twice a year.

Society outings have included visits to see the Walpole Collection at the King’s School in Canterbury; to Emmanuel College in Cambridge where Walpole studied from 1903 to 1906; and to Epsom College where he was a master in 1908. The next visit will be to Durham School where Walpole was a pupil from 1898 to 1903. In 2023 we organised a guided walk in London’s West End looking at places associated with Walpole’s life, and locations featured in his writings.

We are a member of the Alliance of Literary Societies and Friends of Keswick Museum and Art Gallery and also of St. John’s Church, Keswick where he is buried, and The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.