Hugh Walpole bibliography
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, a 20th-century English novelist, had a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre, children's stories and historical fiction, most notably his "Herries" series, set in the Lake District.
Books
Title | First published | British publisher | US publisher | Notes |
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The Wooden Horse | 1909 | Smith, Elder | Doran | |
Maradick at Forty: A Transition | 1910 | Smith, Elder | Doran | |
Mr Perrin and Mr Traill | 1911 | Mills and Boon | Doran | revised for the US version as The Gods and Mr Perrin: subsequently filmed (1948). |
The Prelude to Adventure | 1912 | Mills and Boon | Doran | |
Fortitude | 1913 | Martin Secker | Doran | |
The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death [1] | 1914 | Martin Secker | Doran | |
The Golden Scarecrow [2] | 1915 | Cassell | Doran | short stories:
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The Dark Forest [3] | 1916 | Martin Secker | Doran | |
Joseph Conrad | 1916 | Nisbet | Henry Holt | |
The Green Mirror | 1918 | Macmillan | Doran | |
The Secret City [4] | 1919 | Macmillan | Doran | |
Jeremy | 1919 | Cassell | Doran | |
The Art of James Branch Cabell | 1920 | – | R M McBride | |
The Captives [5] | 1920 | Macmillan | Doran | |
The Thirteen Travellers | 1920 | Hutchinson | Doran | short stories:
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The Young Enchanted [6] | 1921 | Macmillan | Grosset and Dunlap | |
The Cathedral[7] | 1922 | Macmillan | Doran | |
Jeremy and Hamlet | 1923 | Cassell | Doran | |
The Crystal Box | 1924 | Privately published by Walpole | – | limited edition of 150 copies |
The Old Ladies | 1924 | Macmillan | Doran | |
The English Novel: Some Notes on its Evolution | 1924 | Cambridge University Press | – | not published in the US until 1970 (Folcroft edition) |
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair | 1925 | Macmillan | Doran | |
Harmer John | 1926 | Macmillan | Doran | |
Reading: An Essay | 1926 | Jarrolds | – | |
Jeremy at Crale | 1927 | Cassell | Doran | |
Anthony Trollope | 1928 | Macmillan | Macmillan | |
My Religious Experience | 1928 | Benn | – | |
The Silver Thorn | 1928 | Macmillan | Doubleday | short stories:
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Wintersmoon | 1928 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Farthing Hall | 1929 | Macmillan | Doubleday | with J B Priestley |
Hans Frost | 1929 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Rogue Herries | 1930 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Above the Dark Circus | 1931 | Macmillan | Doubleday | published in the US as Above the Dark Tumult |
Judith Paris | 1931 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
The Apple Trees: Four Reminiscences | 1932 | Golden Cockerel Press | – | limited edition of 500 copies |
The Fortress | 1932 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
A Letter to a Modern Novelist | 1932 | Hogarth | – | |
All Souls' Night | 1933 | Macmillan | Doubleday | short stories:
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Vanessa | 1933 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Extracts from a Diary | 1934 | Privately published by Walpole | ||
Captain Nicholas | 1934 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Cathedral Carol Service | 1934 | Faber and Faber | – | an episode from "The Inquisitor" |
The Inquisitor | 1935 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Claude Houghton: Appreciations | 1935 | Heinemann | – | with Clemence Dane |
A Prayer for My Son | 1936 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
John Cornelius: His Life and Adventures | 1937 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Head in Green Bronze and Other Stories | 1938 | Macmillan | Doubleday | short stories:
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The Joyful Delaneys | 1938 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
The Sea Tower | 1939 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Roman Fountain | 1940 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
The Bright Pavilions | 1940 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
The Blind Man's House | 1941 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Open Letter of an Optimist | 1941 | Macmillan | – | |
The Killer and the Slain | 1942 | Macmillan | Doubleday | |
Katherine Christian | 1943 | Macmillan | Doubleday | UK publication 1944 |
Mr Huffam and Other Stories | 1948 | Macmillan | short stories:
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Some of Walpole's stories were parts of series with related themes:
- The London Novels were Fortitude, The Duchess of Wrexe, The Green Mirror, The Captives, The Young Enchanted, Wintersmoon, Hans Frost and Captain Nicholas.
- Scenes from Provincial Life included The Cathedral, The Old Ladies, Harmer John and The Inquisitor.
- The Herries Chronicle comprises Rogue Herries, Judith Paris, The Fortress, Vanessa and The Bright Pavilions. Two later Herries books were The Bright Pavilions and Katherine Christian.
- The Jeremy stories were Jeremy, Jeremy and Hamlet and Jeremy at Crale.
- Four Fantastic Tales were Maradick at Forty, Prelude to Adventure, Portrait of a Man with Red Hair and Above the Dark Circus.
Short Stories
The following stories appeared in the Windsor Magazine :
- The Dog and the Dragon In Reminiscence October 1923
- Red Amber December 1923
- The Garrulous Diplomatist December 1924
- The Adventure of Mrs Farbman January 1925
- The Adventure of the Imaginative Child February 1925
- The Happy Optimist March 1925
- The Dyspeptic Critic April 1925
- The Man Who Lost His Identity May 1925
- The Adventure of the Beautiful Things June 1925
- The War Babies are Growing Up ! November 1934
Other works
Plays
- The Young Huntress, 1933
- The Cathedral (adaptation of his 1922 novel), 1936
- The Haxtons, 1939
Editor
In 1932 Walpole edited The Waverley Pageant: Best Passages from the Novels of Sir Walter Scott. In 1937 he edited a compilation of short stories, A Second Century of Creepy Stories (Hutchinson, 1937), by a range of writers including Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Walpole himself ("Tarnhelm") and twenty-one others.[8]
Notes
- ↑ The Duchess of Wrexe (1914)
- ↑ The Golden Scarecrow (1915)
- ↑ The Dark Forest (1916)
- ↑ The Secret City (1919)
- ↑ The Captives (1920)
- ↑ The Young Enchanted (1921)
- ↑ The Cathedral (1922)
- ↑ "A Second Century of Creepy Stories" WorldCat, accessed 23 November 2013
Sources
- Hart-Davis, Rupert (1997) [1952]. Hugh Walpole. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton. pp. 481–483. ISBN 0750914912.
- "Hugh Walpole", Contemporary Authors Online, Gale Group, accessed 23 November 2013 (subscription required)
- "Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007 online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 23 November 2013 (subscription required)
- "Hugh Walpole", WorldCat, accessed 5 January 2014