WALPOLE, SIR HUGH SEYMOUR

1884–1941, English novelist, b. New Zealand, educated at Cambridge. His first two novels were failures, but with Fortitude (1913) he achieved financial and literary success. He was an uneven writer who turned out colorful, descriptive prose at a rapid pace; his best-known works include the historical Herries novels—Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931), The Fortress (1932), and Vanessa (1933). Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925) is probably his best horror story. There are autobiographical elements in Jeremy (1919), Jeremy and Hamlet (1923), Jeremy at Crale (1927), and The Cathedral (1922). He also wrote short stories, several plays, biographies of Joseph Conrad (1916) and Anthony Trollope (1928), and the screenplay for the film David Copperfield (1934). Walpole was knighted in 1937.

See his autobiography (3 vol., 1924, 1932, 1940); biographies by R. Hart-Davis (1952) and E. Steele (1972).

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Hugh Walpole, a Biography: A Biography
Book by Rupert Hart-Davis; Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1952
Subjects: Walpole, Hugh--Sir--1884-1941
LIST OF BOOKS BY HUGH WALPOLE 1909. The Wooden Horse...Containing: A Prologue: Hugh Seymour, Henry Fitzgeorge Strether...John Scarlett, Epilogue: Hugh Seymour 1916. The Dark...Bombastes Furioso 1921. A Hugh Walpole Anthology 1921. The Young...
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Horace Walpole
Book by Dorothy Margaret Stuart; Macmillan, 1927
Subjects: Fiction, Walpole, Horace--1717-1797
...his executors in a sealed box, and delivered to Lord Hugh Seymour, through whose hands it passed to those of the writers...Foxs grandson, Lord Holland; twenty-three years later Sir Denis Le Marchant brought out those dealing with the reign...
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The Gentle Hertford: Her Life and Letters
Book by Helen Sard Hughes; The Macmillan Company, 1940
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--Biography, Somerset, Frances Seymour--Duchess of--1699-1754
...Hamilton. Horace Walpole to Mann Apr. 8...diminutive as he is." Walpole, I, 209. 18...Bettys first child, Hugh. 20. In March 1742...wife Anne, dau. of Sir Henry Lawson, Bart...countrymen of Sir Hugh Smithson. 22. Lord...the resignation of Walpole a motion was carried...
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A Henry James Encyclopedia
Book by Robert L. Gale; Greenwood Press, 1989
Subjects: James, Henry--1843-1916--Encyclopedias
...evidence of a primordially urged personal will. Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour 1884-1941 . New Zealand--born, New York- and...son of a peripatetic Scottish Episcopal clergyman. Hugh Walpole was a novelist, critic, and homosexual. Unable...
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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
Book by William Rose Benét; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries
...1763 ; and Historic Doubts on Richard III 1768 . Walpole traveled a good deal in France and Italy, and...several of his own works. He was the son of Sir Robert WALPOLE. Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour 1884-1941 . English novelist, born in New...
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journal articles on: Walpole Sir Hugh Seymour  - 3 results

 
 
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Frank Lloyd's Berkeley Square (1933): Re-adapting Henry James's the Sense of the Past
Journal article by Craig Frischkorn; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 28, 2000
Subjects: Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures
...Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour). Each of these...the gothic novelist Hugh Walpole served as the inspiration...novels effete snob, Sir Canthopher Bland...introduce Peter to Sir Joshua Reynolds who...describe the gentleman Sir Cantophers voice as...
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Touching Touchets: Perkin Warbeck and the Buggery Statute
Journal article by Lisa Hopkins; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Ford, John (author)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sexual deviation--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...lovers had included the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt;(23) Harpsfield...disgrace of a primate. A note by Sir Thomas Stradling records...bound up in the affair since Sir John Pophams house of Littlecote...Annes immediate successor, Jane Seymour; the house still has stained...
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Second Journey Abroad
Journal article; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanovna, Education, Marriage, Royalty, Russian history, Women
...who took classes from Hugh Blair, Dugald (Donald...who was secretary to Sir Joseph Banks, explorer...August 5,1780, Professor Hugh Blair assured the doting...public figure than Horace Walpole suspected Dashkova of...political economist, and Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor...


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The Edwardian Literary Afternoon Part Two: Now Came Still Evening On
Magazine article by Richard Whittington-Egan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 276, May 2000
Subjects: Authors, English--Conduct of life, England--Literature, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Social aspects, Literary movements--England
...immorality, he flung Hugh Walpole out of his house...wrote a book to clear Sir Roger of the slur...identity of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916...Described by Martin Seymour-Smith as a more...later, with Hugh Walpole a taste for the strong...


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Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WALPOLE, SIR HUGH SEYMOUR 1884 1941, English novelist, b. New Zealand, educated at Cambridge...1928), and the screenplay for the film David Copperfield (1934). Walpole was knighted in 1937. See his autobiography (3 vol., 1924, 1932...


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