Author:Hugh Seymour Walpole

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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole
(1884–1941)
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Versatile English novelist whose range included the macabre, children's stories and historical fiction; most notably his Herries series, set in the Lake District.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

Works

  • Farthing Hall, with J. B. Priestley (1929)
  • My Religious Experience (1928)

Thematic series

The London Novels

Scenes from Provincial Life

The Jeremy stories

  • Jeremy (1919) (external scan) Project Gutenberg
  • Jeremy and Hamlet (1923) (short stories) Project Gutenberg
    • Come out of the Kitchen — Conscience Money — The Dance — Saladin and the Black Bishop — Poodle — The Night Raiders — Young Baltimore — The Ruffians — The Picture-Book — Uncle Percy — The Runaways — A Fine Day
  • Jeremy at Crale (1927)

Four Fantastic Tales

Herries series

  • Rogue Herries (1930)
  • Judith Paris (1931)
  • The Fortress (1932)
  • Vanessa (1933)
  • The Bright Pavilions (1940)
  • Katherine Christine (1943)

Collections

  • The Silver Thorn (1928)
    • The Little Donkeys with the Crimson Saddles
    • The Enemy in Ambush
    • "Chinese Horses" (1923, Everybody's) ss
    • A Silly Old Fool
    • Ecstasy
    • The Tarn, originally published in Success, October 1923. Reprinted in The Strand Magazine, December 1923
    • No Unkindness Intended
    • The Etching
    • Major Wilbraham
    • "The Enemy" (1923, Strand) ss
    • Old Elizabeth (A Portrait)
    • A Picture
    • The Dove
    • The Tiger
    • Bachelors


Non-fiction

Plays

Short works from magazines

Included in Jeremy and Hamlet (1923)

  • "Jeremy and the Ruffians" (1922, Century) (as "The Ruffians") ss
  • "The Picture-Book" (1923, Everybody's) ss
  • "Runaways" (1923, Everybody's) ss
  • "A Fine Day" (1923, Everybody's) ss

Works about Walpole

  • Hugh Walpole, a Criticism (1919) by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • "The Courage of Hugh Walpole" in When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant Overton (1922)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1941, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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