Hugh Walpole bibliography explained

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	Online edition
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:
The Dark Forest ^[3]	1916	Martin Secker	Doran
Joseph Conrad	1916	Nisbet	Henry Holt	Biography and criticism
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:
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	Biography and criticism
My Religious Experience	1928	Benn	–
The Silver Thorn	1928	Macmillan	Doubleday	short stories:
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:
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:
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:

Book series

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 and Vanessa. 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]

Sources

• Book: Hart-Davis, Rupert . 1997. 1952. Hugh Walpole . 481–483. Stroud, Gloucestershire . Sutton. 0750914912.
• "Hugh Walpole", Contemporary Authors Online, Gale Group. Retrieved 23 November 2013
• "Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007 online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2013
• "Hugh Walpole", WorldCat. Retrieved 5 January 2014

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=iaJHAAAAYAAJ The Duchess of Wrexe
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=5_0nAAAAMAAJ The Golden Scarecrow
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=o6ysmQ0EH9gC The Dark Forest
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=M301AAAAMAAJ The Secret City
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=qXw1AAAAMAAJ The Captives
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=tr3TAAAAMAAJ The Young Enchanted
7.  The Cathedral (1922)
8. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3011435 "A Second Century of Creepy Stories"