The Hugh Walpole Review

Hugh Walpole’s Lake District Novels – Grevel Lindop

‘He loved every dog …’: Jean Paul’s Flegeljahre – Nicholas Redman

‘Almost the Goods’: Preliminary findings on the Critical Reputation of Hugh Walpole – Mark Egerton

Walpole’s Introductions, Forewards and Prefaces – Nicholas Redman

Umbrellas at Dawn: The Novels of Hugh Walpole – Richard Hughes

Walpole on Film – Rod Boroughs

Walter R. Sickert’s Portraits of Hugh Walpole – Nicholas Redman

Walpole in Print – Mark Egerton

Walpoliana

Hugh Walpole reviews Christopher Isherwood, T.E. Lawrence and C.S. Lewis

The Macabre and Supernatural in Hugh Walpole’s Novels and Short Stories – George Gorniak

Hugh Walpole, Lauritz Melchior, Winifred Wagner, Adolf Hitler and Bayreuth – Nicholas Redman

‘Unfortunately the power of these writers is not harnessed in the service of literature’ – Q.D. Leavis, Authoritarianism and Hugh Walpole – Mark Egerton

Dedications in Hugh Walpole’s Works – Nicholas Redman

Walpole in Print – The Dream of X versus Valancourt Books – Mark Egerton

Walpole the Undergraduate: the Emmanuel College Archives (Part 1) – Rod Boroughs

Further notes on Jean Paul – Nicholas Redman

Walpoliana

‘Planning your winter reading’ by Sir Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole at the Front, or adventures in Partitioned Poland – Nicholas Redman

Hugh Walpole’s Two Bookplates – Charles Nugent

Staring into the Abyss : Hugh Walpole’s The Killer and the Slain – John Hartley

‘A foreigner’s apprehension of a country at its most critical time’: Hugh Walpole in Russia in World War 1 – Giannandrea Poesio and Alexis Weedon

Hugh Walpole’s library sales at Christie’s: A Brief Case Study – Charles Nugent

Becoming a Hollywood Screenwriter : Walpole’s ‘grand opening in films’ – Rod Boroughs

Henry Galleon, Famous Old Novelist – Nicholas Redman

Walpoliana

Hugh Walpole’s Notes from a Northern Cottage, The Golden Book Magazine, October 1930 – Introduced by Mark Egerton

Themes, Variations and a Different Maniac: Maradick at Forty and Portrait of a Man with Red Hair – John Cameron Hartley

Hugh Walpole, G. Arnold Varty and the Library Sales at Christie’s – Charles Nugent

Hugh Walpole on the Novel, and on Writing Books – Nicholas Redman

Walpole and the Dickens Connection – George Gorniak

Hugh Walpole, New Zealander, 1884-1889 – Nicholas Redman

Some Thoughts on The Herries Chronicle following the Death of Louise Page (1955-2020) – John Cameron Hartley

Walpoliana

Hugh Walpole, ‘I’m Glad you Got the Vote!’, The Woman’s Journal, June 1929 – Introduction by Mark Egerton

The Henrietta Mystery – John Cameron Hartley

Hugh Walpole’s Tree in the Shakespeare Garden in Cleveland, Ohio. Introduction by Mark Egerton. – Sally Goodall

‘You can’t prove a negative’: Findings on the Critical Reputation of Hugh Walpole (Part 3) – Mark Egerton

A visit to Brackenburn – Diana Durden

Epigraphs in Hugh Walpole’s Books – Nicholas Redman

Hugh Walpole in the Emmanuel College Archives: Part 2 – ‘The Special Collections Walpole Material’ – Rod Boroughs

The National Trust’s Collection of Hugh Walpoles – Nicholas Redman

Review of Alexis Weedon, The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation – John Cameron Hartley

Walpoliana

Hugh Walpole, ‘An Author Being Himself’, The Golden Book Magazine, February 1932 – Introduction by Nicholas Redman

Hugh Walpole, ‘The Chair with the Golden Thread’. The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book, 1935 – Introduction by Nicholas Redman

‘Five’s better than one’: Hugh Walpole and the Book Society – Dr Nicola Wilson

Hugh Walpole and John Buchan: A record of their Friendship – George Gorniak

A Visit to Canterbury in June – Nicholas Redman

‘My manuscripts’: Hugh Walpole’s account of his Canterbury Collection – Peter Henderson

Fearful Symmetry – John Cameron Hartley

Gilbert Frankau, Francis Marion Crawford, Rudyard Kipling and Hugh Walpole – Nicholas Redman

Walpole’s Model Ship in All Saints’ Church, St Andrews – Parker T. Gordon

The Gerald Kelly Portrait – Nicholas Redman

A Hollywood Screenwriter at Sea, 7-12 June 1934 – Rod Boroughs

More on the Henrietta Mystery – Nicholas Redman

Walpoliana

Hugh Walpole, ‘Mrs Comber and the Dog’, The Strand Magazine, July 1914

A Guide to the Locations of the London Novels – Diana Durden

Hugh Walpole’s London Homes – Nicholas Redman

The Strange Case of Mr Perrin and Mr Traill – John Cameron Hartley

How I became a Walpole Collector – and started the first Hugh Walpole Society – Ann Bolam

The Story of Walpole’s Bogus Blue Plaque – Rod Boroughs

Working in Hollywood: A Comparative Study of James Hilton and Other English Novelists – Richard Hughes

Hugh Walpole and Epsom – Nicholas Redman

An Inventory of Copies of The Crystal Box – Charles Nugent

Books Dedicated to Hugh Walpole – Nicholas Redman

The Second Time as Farce: Michael Frayn puts Hugh Walpole on the Stage – John Cameron Hartley

Reginald Eves’s Three Portraits of Hugh Walpole – Nicholas Redman

Walpoliana

Hugh Walpole ‘Novelists’ Own Cottages – 4′, The Countryman, 1934. (Followed by Arnold Bennett’s comment on Walpole’s decision to move to the Lakes, and Walpole’s response.)

An Invitation to the Hugh Walpole Society London Walking Tour – Saturday 3 June 2023 – Nicholas Redman

Looking for Zanti – John Cameron Hartley

From ‘Dear Mr Walpole’ and ‘Dear Miss Dane’ to ‘My Dear Hugh’ and ‘Dearest Winifred’: the Friendship of Clemence Dane and Hugh Walpole – Rose Collis

Joyce Elliot, a World War II Evacuee in Brackenburn – Dee MacLean

Hugh Walpole and the Queen Anne Style – Timothy Brittain-Catlin

A Postscript to the Series considering Walpole’s Critical Reputation – Mark Egerton

More Books Dedicated to Hugh Walpole – Nicholas Redman

Hugh Walpole and the 1937 Coronation – Peter Henderson

The Walpole Family and Edinburgh, 1910–1963 – Nicholas Redman

The Society London Walking Tour, June 2023 – Mark Egerton

Jerzy Duda-Gracz, Illustrator of Portrait of a Man with Red Hair – Nicholas Redman

Review: An Evening with the Book Society by Maria Vassilopoulos – Rod Boroughs

Walpoliana

Hugh Walpole, ‘The Glorious Abbey Ceremony’, The Daily Mail, 13 May 1937

Critical Mass … or a Humble Response – John Cameron Hartley

Charles Nugent and the Hugh Walpole Society – Nicholas Redman

When Hugh met Harold – the Beginning of an Ideal Friendship – Rod Boroughs

First Encounters with Hugh Walpole – George Gorniak

Clemence Dane’s The Moon is Feminine – a Belated Addition to the Hugh Walpole Collection – Peter Henderson

A Novel Collector – the Legacy left by Art Collector and Novelist Hugh Walpole – Michael Prodger

J.B. Priestley on Walpole’s Art Collection – Nicholas Redman

Hiding in Plain Sight – Walpole’s Self-portraits in his Fiction – John Cameron Hartley

The Society’s Visit to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 14 October 2023 – Rod Boroughs

Walpole’s Lions – Nicholas Redman

Jorge Luis Borges – Walpole’s unlikeliest fan? – John Cameron Hartley

Hugh Walpole, The Golden Scarecrow, and the ‘horrible frontispiece’- Nicholas Redman

Review: Red Amber and Other Stories by Hugh Walpole – Grevel Lindop

Walpoliana

Mr Walpole, Guest Editor, The Golden Book Magazine, December 1933 – Mark Egerton

‘The Most Perfect Place’ – Walpole’s Polperro – Nicholas Redman

A Circus of Speculation or the Elephant in the Room – John Cameron Hartley

First Encounters with Hugh Walpole – Diana Durden

The Dreamworld Narratives of Edgar Allan Poe and Hugh Walpole – George Gorniak

‘A little token of esteem’ from the Institute of Journalists – Nicholas Redman

Walpole Memorabilia in the Cheevers’ Family Collection – Tim Cheevers

A Public Lecture ‘in the Time of Bombing’ – Nicholas Redman

An Update on Epsom College – Rebecca Worthy       

John Cornelius and the Sotheran’s Bookshop Window – Nicholas Redman          

‘The Man Without Red Hair’. Interview with Hugh Walpole by Henry Albert Phillips. The Dearborn Independent, 1 May 1926

‘Polchester – Dream City’, by F.L. Black. Mapped by Paul Honoré. The Dearborn Independent, 20 August 1927