The Society publishes two issues of The Hugh Walpole Review (ISSN 2633-8831) a year (Spring and Autumn). Volume 4 Number 1 was published in Spring 2023. The submission deadline for the Autumn 2023 Review is 31st July 2023.
Submissions are welcome. Contributions to the Review and correspondence relating to the Society may be sent to Mark Egerton at egerton.mark@gmail.com.
The Review is free to members of the Society. Individual copies are not available for sale until the year following publication.
The biannual Hugh Walpole Review is intended to function as a combination of an academic journal and a newsletter. As such the contents are broad and features a mix of material following distinct approaches and tones.
The Hugh Walpole Review Volume 1 Number 1 Spring 2020
A Word of Welcome – Nicholas Redman
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 – Rod Boroughs and Nicholas Redman
Hugh Walpole reviews…Christopher Isherwood, T.E. Lawrence and C.S. Lewis
The Works of Hugh Walpole
The Hugh Walpole Society 2020 Calendar
The Hugh Walpole Review Volume 1 Number 2 Autumn 2020
Note from the Chairman – Nicholas Redman
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 – Nicholas Redman
Correspondence
‘Planning your winter reading’ by Sir Hugh Walpole
The Hugh Walpole Society 2021 Calendar
The Hugh Walpole Review Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 2021
Note from the Chairman – Nicholas Redman
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
The Hugh Walpole Society 2021 Calendar
The Hugh Walpole Review Volume 2 Number 2 Autumn 2021
Note from the Chairman – Nicholas Redman
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 Hugh Walpole Society 2021/2022 Calendar
The Hugh Walpole Review Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 2022
Note from the Chairman – Nicholas Redman
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
Epigraph’s 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
The Hugh Walpole Society 2022 Calendar
The Hugh Walpole Review Volume 3 Number 2 Autumn 2022
Note from the Chairman – 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
The Hugh Walpole Society 2022/2023 Calendar
The Hugh Walpole Review Volume 4 Number 1 Spring 2023
Note from the Chairman – Nicholas Redman
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
The Hugh Walpole Society 2023 Calendar