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Hugh Walpole

 

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Walter Scott : unknown

'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all of Scott, who influenced his own first writings.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over Jeanie's meeting with the Queen ..."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

various : The Abbotsford Correspondence

'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or Scott's Journal (1890) ...'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : Journal

'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or Scott's Journal (1890) ...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : Katherine Christian

'[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherine Christian (1941).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

Arnold Bennett : 'New Age' articles

'[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had asked for. He said it would be ridiculous not to reissue a selection from them as a book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Somerset Maugham : Cakes and Ale

Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930: 'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a book from the Times, get Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham. All London is ringing with it. For there poor Hugh [Walpole] is most cruelly and maliciously at the same time unmistakably and amusingly caricatured [as Alroy Kear]. He was sitting on his bed with only one sock on when he opened it. There he sat with only one sock on till 11 next morning reading it [...] He almost wept in front of Hilda Matheson, Vita [Sackville-West] and Clive [Bell], in telling us. And he couldn't stop. Whenever we changed the conversation he went back.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

Virginia Woolf : The Waves

'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas 1932. The first words of the book are: "There is a fearful passage in Virginia Woolf's beautiful and mysterious book The Waves, which when I read it, gave me an acute shock of unanticipated reminiscence." He then quotes a long passage in which he found his title: "The apple-tree leaves became fixed in the sky; the moon glared."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

  

Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse

'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? and what fun to be in at the birth of books quite as important as Jane Austen. She is a genius and I would carry a thousand hair-shedding dogs to the gates of Hell for her did she wish it!"'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hugh Walpole      Print: Book

 

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