I grew up... discontented, ugly, abnormally sensitive, and excessively conceited. No one liked me – not masters, boys, friends of the family, nor relations who came to stay; and I do not in the least wonder at it. I was untidy, uncleanly, excessively gauche. I believed that I was profoundly misunderstood, that people took my pale and pimpled countenance for the mirror of my soul, that I had marvellous things of interest in me that would one day be discovered. [12]

Walpole's books cover a wide range. His fiction includes short stories, bildungsromane ( Mr Perrin and Mr Traill, 1911, and the Jeremy trilogy) that delve into the psychology of boyhood; gothic horror novels ( Portrait of a Man with Red Hair, 1925, and The Killer and the Slain, 1942); ghost stories ( All Souls' Night, 1933); a period family saga (the Herries chronicle) and even detective fiction ( Behind the Screen). [106] He wrote literary biographies (Conrad, 1916; James Branch Cabell, 1920; and Trollope, 1928); plays; and screenplays including David Copperfield, 1935. Alfred Wainwright (2005). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Western Fells. ISBN 978-0-7112-2460-5.

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Always preferring fact over fiction, the Wainwrights I have read enthusiastically over and over, never ceasing to be amazed by them. They are the books I would take to my desert island if I could only have the one (I’d cheat and plump for the boxed set!). List of places UK England Cumbria 54°31′45″N 3°08′45″W / 54.529167°N 3.145833°W / 54.529167; -3.145833 Francis Herries, a man who has clearly done much to earn the sobriquet ‘Rogue’, has uprooted his family from their Yorkshire home, because he knew that his sins would soon catch up with him if he stayed. The travelling party includes his wife; his two daughters, Mary and Deborah; his only son, David; his loyal manservant; a woman who carries the title of housekeeper but is in fact his mistress; and a priest who held some very strong views…. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 438 people, living in 137 households. [2] [3] The 2011 Census showed that the population had declined to 417 residents among 128 households. [4] Economy [ edit ] It has fantastic set pieces that make it a great community show that calls for children, older people, musicians and dancers. The appeal is in the sheer epic scale of the story. I was also very interested in the father and son relationship at the centre of the book, something very rarely explored in the theatre.

Driven by a wild romantic impulse, Francis Herries uproots his family from Doncaster to the lakeland valley of Borrowdale. Accompanied by his housekeeper/mistress, Alice, they settle in his tumbledown ancestral home, Herries, in the shadow of the Cumberland fells. Newsome, David (1980). On the Edge of Paradise – A C Benson: The Diarist. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719536901. Walpole, though he was devoted to the works of Trollope, and published a study of him, thought that there was no real comparison between the two of them: "I am far too twisted and fantastic a novelist ever to succeed in catching Trollope's marvellous normality." [30] Priestley was less impressed by the supposed Trollopian side of Walpole's work, finding some of it formulaic. He was more taken with a darker, Dostoyevskian, side that he found in the writing: "suddenly it will transform the pleasant easy scene he is giving us into transparency behind which are bright stars and red hellfire... No matter how jolly and zestful he may appear to be, the fact remains that he possesses an unusually sharp sense of evil." [40] Lyttelton, George; Rupert Hart-Davis (1978). Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters, Volume 1. London: John Murray. ISBN 071953478X. The London Novels were Fortitude, The Duchess of Wrexe, The Green Mirror, The Captives, The Young Enchanted, Wintersmoon, Hans Frost and Captain Nicholas.

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Strens, R. G. J. (2009). "The Graphite Deposit of Seathwaite in Borrowdale, Cumberland". Geological Magazine. 102 (5): 393–406. doi: 10.1017/S0016756800053668. Walpole, Hugh. "Why didn't I put Poison in his Coffee?" John O'London's Weekly, 11 October 1940, quoted in Hart-Davis, p. 264 a b c d e Priestley, J B. "Hugh Walpole", The English Journal, Volume 17, No 7 (September 1928), pp. 529–536 (subscription required)

Hugh Walpole was born in New Zealand in 1884, the son of a Bishop. He came to England when he was five years old. He was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the years that followed the two families would meet and cross paths, but Frances Herries would never again set foot in his brother’s house. Gunter, Susan E.; Steven H. Jobe (2001). Dearly Beloved Friends – Henry James's Letters to Younger Men. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472110098. Before Brexit for the European Parliament its residents voted to elect MEP's for the North West England constituency. Hastings, Selina (2009). The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719565545.Steele, Elizabeth (2006). Sir Hugh Walpole and the United States – A Novelist's View of 1919–1936 America. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0773455329. Poesio and Weedon, pp. 1, 10, 26: "This article focuses on…the artistic influence of Walpole’s sojourn in Russia" This was in 1919. Walpole's successors in the 1920s included Lawrence (1920), Bennett (1923), E M Forster (1924), Radclyffe Hall (1926), Siegfried Sassoon (1928) and J B Priestley (1929). [59]