Hugh Walpole: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him

150 HUGH WALPOLE» AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM By Elizabeth Steele (University of Toledo) It is appropriate that many of the items which appear in this list of works about Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), the popular novelist who wrote between 1909 and 1941, should be reviews of his many books. Walpole was very concerned about the reviews he received , watching them as a feverish convalescent watches the rises and falls of the mercury in his thermometer. Thus while a real effort has been made to cover all the reviews in the Times Literary Supplement and the daily Times, most of the hints for this type of item have come from Walpole's own diaries, journals and scrapbooks, which are available at the Academic Center Library, University of Texas, Austin. I am grateful for the library's permission to examine them. Three kinds of items appear infrequently if at all in the bibliography « (1) unpublished German theses written on Walpole; (2) personal letters, published and unpublished (the latter made available by the kindness of Sir Rupert Hart-Davis), concerning Walpole; and (3) the hundreds of items, published in American newspapers, concerning his five lecture tours and two Hollywood sojourns here. This last category constitutes a separate study in itself. I am grateful to the following friends end colleagues who have helped me with the abstracting of many items« Michael A. Benzel, Barbara Butterfield, Joanne L. Campbell, Professor Richard Gregory , Janet Hyon, Harvey Kail, Gust Kountoupes, Mary Helen Lezon, Susan J. Masztak, Lemoyne B. Mercer, Monroe Morgret, Kathy Papp, Joanne Schneider, Marjorie S. Stearman, Professor Arthur Steele, Professor Bruce E. Teets. They are credited with their contributions by initial at the end of the relevant abstract. Following are the abbreviations of Walpole's titles, as used in this bibliography. (More complete lists of his works will be found in Rupert Hart-Davis, Hugh Walpole. A Biography [1952] and Elizabeth Steele, Hugh Walpole [19721.) ADC - Above the Dark Circus ASN - All Souls' Night BMH - The Blind Man's House BP - The Bright Pavilions CAP - The Captives CAT - The Cathedral CB - The Crystal Box CN - Captain Nicholas CON - Joseph Conrad DF - The Dark Forest DW - The Duchess of Wrexe F - Fortitude FH - Farthing Hall GM - The Green Mirror GP - The Gods and Mr. Perrin GS - The Golden Scarecrow H - The Haxtons HF - Hans Frost HGB - Head in Green Bronze HJ - Harmer John INQ - The Inquisitor J - Jeremy JAC - Jeremy at Crale JC - John Cornelius JD - The Joyful Delaneys JH - Jeremy and Hamlet 151 JP - Judith Paris SC - The Secret City KC - Katherine Christian STH - The Silver Thorn KS - The Kille'r and the Slain STO - The Sea Tower MF - Maradick at Forty TF - The Fortress MH - Mr. Huffam TRE - The Apple Trees MRH - Portrait of a Man with Red Hair TRO - Anthony Trollope OL - The Old Ladies TT - The Thirteen Travellers PA - The Prelude to Adventure V - Vanessa PMS - A, Prayer for My Son WH - The Wooden Horse PT - Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill WIN - Wintersmoon RF - Roman Fountain YE - The Young Enchanted RH - Rogue Herries YH - The Young Huntress (unpublished play) Adcock, A[rthur] St. John. "Hugh Walpole," GODS OF MODERN GRUB STREET (Londi Sampson Low, Marston, [1923?]), pp 293-99. W*s old-fashioned ideas about what a novel should be are confirmed in his admiration of Trollope. The two writers have much in common, and in some ways W is even Trollope's superior. [RG] [Agate, James]. "Agate Knocks . . . Walpole," DAILY EXPRESS (Lond), 3 March 1938, ϕ 10. In his new collection of short stories, HGB, W uses an impossible simile« "Ά flock of angels cut the brilliant air like a wave breaking through mist!'" W should prune more. Yet no "pedants . . . can write such thundering good books" as W can "When he deals with his proper subjects" (cathedrals and schoolteachers ). The stories in HGB "vary between the pretty good and the goodish." But some of them seem to suggest that W "created the English Lakes." Actually, he was probably only "consulted about them." [ES] ........ "Books," DAILY EXPRESS (Lond), 29 March 1940, n. p» Almost every word of RF is fascinating. [MHL] ........ EGO 2 (Lond: George G. Harrap, 1936), pp 18...