@hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social
Bringing Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole back into the limelight he once enjoyed!
https://hughwalpole.org/
https://hughwalpole.org/
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Authors I discuss include: Daniel Defoe (whose Robinson Crusoe is, I suggest, foundational to this mode of writing/thinking), Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Susan Hill, Hugh Walpole, Gaskell, Riddell, Stoker, Aickman, MR James, Adrian Ross, Frances Burney, Conrad, Oyeyemi, Alice Thompson – & others!
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Authors I discuss include: Daniel Defoe (whose Robinson Crusoe is, I suggest, foundational to this mode of writing/thinking), Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Susan Hill, Hugh Walpole, Gaskell, Riddell, Stoker, Aickman, MR James, Adrian Ross, Frances Burney, Conrad, Oyeyemi, Alice Thompson – & others!
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Oooo gonna spend some time here. I’ve read Mysteries of Udolpho and Rookwood, I’m aware Hugh Walpole exists…aaaand that’s about it
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Oooo gonna spend some time here. I’ve read Mysteries of Udolpho and Rookwood, I’m aware Hugh Walpole exists…aaaand that’s about it
An elegant summary!
However, Hugh was never a minister of the church, although when he was originally destined for a religious career, he did spend an unsuccessful period as a layman in a Seaman's Mission in Liverpool.
However, Hugh was never a minister of the church, although when he was originally destined for a religious career, he did spend an unsuccessful period as a layman in a Seaman's Mission in Liverpool.
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
An elegant summary!
However, Hugh was never a minister of the church, although when he was originally destined for a religious career, he did spend an unsuccessful period as a layman in a Seaman's Mission in Liverpool.
However, Hugh was never a minister of the church, although when he was originally destined for a religious career, he did spend an unsuccessful period as a layman in a Seaman's Mission in Liverpool.
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‘Horace Walpole planted his absurd helmet just where he pleased and you could take it or leave it.’
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
‘Horace Walpole planted his absurd helmet just where he pleased and you could take it or leave it.’
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
Sorry to jump on here Patrick, but this is out, with the article about your research into Hugh Walpole's bout with Wee Willie Davis!
DM us, or 'chat', with an address, & we'll send you a free copy.
Thanks again - great research!
DM us, or 'chat', with an address, & we'll send you a free copy.
Thanks again - great research!
October 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sorry to jump on here Patrick, but this is out, with the article about your research into Hugh Walpole's bout with Wee Willie Davis!
DM us, or 'chat', with an address, & we'll send you a free copy.
Thanks again - great research!
DM us, or 'chat', with an address, & we'll send you a free copy.
Thanks again - great research!
Also in this issue, the fascinating research by @patrickwreed.bsky.social about Hugh Walpole’s ‘stunning’ confrontation with the American wrestler Wee Willie Davis!
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Also in this issue, the fascinating research by @patrickwreed.bsky.social about Hugh Walpole’s ‘stunning’ confrontation with the American wrestler Wee Willie Davis!
With, Carolyn Owen-King on ‘Mr Perrin & Mr Traill’, John Cameron Hartley on ‘Time’ in ‘The Herries Chronicle’, Nicholas Redman on Walpole & Walter Scott, Godfrey Holdstock on ‘Roman Fountain’, & Rod Boroughs on a 100th anniversary retrospective review of Hugh’s ‘The Old Ladies’, in 'The New Yorker'.
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
With, Carolyn Owen-King on ‘Mr Perrin & Mr Traill’, John Cameron Hartley on ‘Time’ in ‘The Herries Chronicle’, Nicholas Redman on Walpole & Walter Scott, Godfrey Holdstock on ‘Roman Fountain’, & Rod Boroughs on a 100th anniversary retrospective review of Hugh’s ‘The Old Ladies’, in 'The New Yorker'.
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I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com
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25) 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole
I loved this short story of murder and watery revenge. Hugh Walpole's a writer that I've really been getting into this year and I look forward to reading more!
I loved this short story of murder and watery revenge. Hugh Walpole's a writer that I've really been getting into this year and I look forward to reading more!
October 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
25) 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole
I loved this short story of murder and watery revenge. Hugh Walpole's a writer that I've really been getting into this year and I look forward to reading more!
I loved this short story of murder and watery revenge. Hugh Walpole's a writer that I've really been getting into this year and I look forward to reading more!