√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Cathedral, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Didn't do much work as was reading "The Killer and the Slain", which I don't like much as it's very sordid and morbid.' | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Killer and the Slain, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Rogue Herries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and ... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | Maradick at Forty | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book repre... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | review of Henry James, The Outcry | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Portrait of a Man with Red Hair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Mr Perrin and Mr Traill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Hugh Walpole | Judith Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening r... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Dark Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Duchess of Wrexe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908:
'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and f... | Edward Morgan Forster | Hugh Walpole | The Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - on... | Vera Brittain | Hugh Walpole | The Dark Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Ca... | Vera Brittain | Hugh Walpole | The Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I thin... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Secret City | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly adm... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Captives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Young Enchanted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Mary Robson | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Mary Pollard | Hugh Walpole | Secret City, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Charles Stansfield | Hugh Walpole | Jeremy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Reginald Robson | Hugh Walpole | Cathedral, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Howard R. Smith | Hugh Walpole | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Green Mirror | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is ... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | Mr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is only to tell you that I have read the book.'
[Hence follow six lines of praise.] | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Captives: A novel in Four Parts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing exper... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Story | Print: Book |