Hugh Walpole
by Rupert Hart-Davis
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First published in 1952 by Macmillan, the author draws on Walpole's journals, letters and diaries to give an intimate portrayal of both the man and the writer.Tags
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Rupert Hart-Davis was the editor of the original collected letters of Oscar Wilde, published in 1962, as well as the editor of numerous other volumes of Wilde's work. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original publication date
- 1952
- People/Characters
- James Agate; Percy Anderson; James Ammand; Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook; Arnold Bennett; A. C. Benson (show all 116); J. D. Beresford; Rudolf Besier; George Blake; Richard Boleslawsky; Muirhead Bone; Alan Bott; Francis Brett Young; Robert Browning; H. J. Bruce ('Benjie'); John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir; Sir George Buchanan; Cazalet (family); Charlie Chaplin; Harold Cheevers; Joseph Conrad; David Copperfield; F. Marion Crawford; Clemence Dane; Alan Dent ('Jock'); Fyodor Dostoevsky; Lord Alfred Douglas; Arthur Conan Doyle; John Drinkwater; Elizabeth von Arnim; Epstein; St John Ervine; W. A. T. Ferris ('Chug'); E. M. Forster; Arthur Fowler; A. S. Frere; Hans Frost; Hamilton Fyfe; John Galsworthy; George Gissing; Ellen Glasgow; Edmund Gosse; Thomas Hardy; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Joseph Hergesheimer; Herries (family); Jean Hersholt; Adolf Hitler; Ford Madox Hueffer; Henry James; Jeremy; Augustus John; Harmer John; John Cornelius; Judith Paris; Tamara Karsavina; Katherine Christian; Gerald Kelly; Rudyard Kipling; D. H. Lawrence; R. H. Bruce Lockhart; Lady Lovelace; Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes; Percy Lubbock; E. V. Lucas; Compton Mackenzie; Frederick Macmillan; Messrs Macmillan; Ethel McKenna; Theodore McKenna; Katherine Mansfield; Charles Marriott; John Masefield; A. J. Mason; W. Somerset Maugham; Ethel Colburn Mayne; Lauritz Melchior ('David'); Mr Perrin (Mr Perrin and Mr Traill); Mr Traill (Mr Perrin and Mr Traill); J. Middleton Murray; Baron Erik Palmstierna; Mr Pooter; J. B. Priestley; Proust; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; Arthur Ransome; Rogue Herries; Robbie Ross; Vita Sackville-West; Sir Walter Scott; Martin Secker; David Selznick; Athene Seyler; George Bernard Shaw; Walter Sickert; May Sinclair; Edith Sitwell; Konstantine Andreevich Somoff; Lord Stanmore; Marguerite Steen; L. A. G. Strong; Frank Swinnerton; Leo Tolstoy; Anthony Trollope; Richard Wagner; Dorothea Walpole; G. H. S. Walpole; Hugh Walpole; Mildred Walpole; Robin Walpole; H. G. Wells; Rebecca West; Harold Williams; P. G. Wodehouse; Virginia Woolf; Charlotte M. Yonge
- Important places
- USA; Brackenburn, Cumbria, England, UK; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK; Canterbury, Kent, England, UK; Cumberland, England, UK; Derwentwater, Cumbria, England, UK (show all 23); Durham, County Durham, England, UK; Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Epsom College, Surrey, England, UK; Hampstead, London, England, UK; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA; Keswick, Cumbria, England, UK; King's School, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK; Lake District, Cumbria, England, UK; London, England, UK; Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; New York, New York, USA; New Zealand; Piccadilly, London, England, UK; Polperro, Cornwall, England, UK; Russia; Tate Gallery, London, England, UK; Truro, Cornwall, England, UK
- Important events
- World War I (1914 | 1918); World War II (1939 | 1945); Russian Revolution
- Epigraph
- Er liebte jeden Hund, und wünschte von jedem Hund geliebt zu sein.
JEAN PAUL
Flegeljahre
(Titlepage). - Dedication
- For Dorothy, Robin and Harold
- First words
- Hugh Walpole was born in New Zealand on 13 March 1884, but his story begins more exactly, and much more appropriately, with the building of an English cathedral.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That a people who had for months suffered from a severe and unmerited shortage of food, who had seen every civil liberty taken out of their hands, and had been forced to surrender every Minister who had their welfare at heart, and had then been fired on for a space of four days by police who numbered at least 28,000 should, when their hour of vengence came, permit no violence, and control in themselves every impulse of greed and unlicensed possession, must always remain one of the great records of history.
(Appendix B, Hugh Walpole's official account of the first Russian revolution). - Original language
- English
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