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. In 2022 we held our first society event in Canterbury. In 2023 we held our second society event in London. Our third event will take place in Cambridge in October 2023. We plan to run future events at locations with Walpole associations. These include conferences, lunches and dinners to commemorate important anniversaries.

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.