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    Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in...
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  • 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...
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    Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole of Walpole, 8th Baron Walpole of Wolterton (1938–2021) Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole, 11th Baron Walpole of Walpole, 9th...
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  • Robert Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole of Walpole, 8th Baron Walpole of Wolterton, JP (8 December 1938 – 8 May 2021), was a British politician who...
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  • (disambiguation), several people Hugh Walpole (1884–1941), novelist John Walpole (1797–1864), English soldier and diplomat Michael Walpole (1570–1614), English Jesuit...
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  • and incidents from the novel were omitted). The story was adapted by Hugh Walpole from the Dickens novel, and the film was directed by George Cukor from...
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  • a left-coiled garden snail that died in 2017 Jeremy, a 1919 novel by Hugh Walpole All pages with titles beginning with Jeremy All pages with titles containing...
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    Headquarters - Jaffna Hugh Segal (1950-2023), Canadian senator Hugh Thornton (American football) (born 1991), American football player Hugh Walpole (1884–1941)...
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  • respectively, the novelists Hugh Walpole and Thomas Hardy (who had died two years previously). In response to a letter from Walpole inquiring about the association...
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    The Walpole family (/ˈwɔːlˌpoʊl, ˈwɒl-/) is a famous English aristocratic family known for their 18th century political influence and for building notable...
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    Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John Rhode, Jessie Rickard, Baroness Emma Orczy, R. Austin Freeman,...
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    friends and strangers alike, marked the last ten years of his life". Hugh Walpole, James Agate and Osbert Sitwell were among those who testified to Bennett's...
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    and not to its esthetic experience." Woolf also noted in a letter to Hugh Walpole in 1936, that she is re-reading it for the sixth time: "I'd forgotten...
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    a climax and a point of test; in other words, it must have a plot". Hugh Walpole had a similar view: "A story should be a story; a record of things happening...
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    "fantasize!" A letter James wrote in old age to Hugh Walpole has been cited as an explicit statement of this. Walpole confessed to him of indulging in "high jinks"...
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    Found (1976) Farthing Hall (1929) (Novel written in collaboration with Hugh Walpole) The Town Major of Miraucourt (1930) (Short story published in a limited...
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    Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC (8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757) was an English diplomat, politician and peer who served as the British ambassador...
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    novelist of more pushy ambition than literary talent – was a caricature of Hugh Walpole. Few believed Maugham's denial and he eventually admitted it was a lie...
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    Brackenburn Lodge, now holiday accommodation but formerly the home of Hugh Walpole who wrote the Herries series of books when he lived here from 1924 to...
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    Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician...
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  • Wagnerite Hugh Walpole and the two quickly became firm friends, travelling together and staying in each other's houses. On a visit to Walpole's cottage...
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  • dispute within the League over their relationship with the RSPCA. In 1937, Hugh Walpole wrote an article in Cruel Sports describing his negative experience of...
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  • Schayer and Selznick himself polished the screenplay commissioned from Hugh Walpole. Directed by John Cromwell, the film was shot during the last two months...
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  • Sturgeon Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy E. H. Visiak H. Russell Wakefield Hugh Walpole Evangeline Walton Donald Wandrei Howard Wandrei H. G. Wells Edward Lucas...
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    entertained his friends and colleagues, including Arnold Bennett and Hugh Walpole; the latter was much taken with the house: "really lovely, with pearl-grey...
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    Wodehouse referred was Hugh Walpole. Wodehouse wrote to a friend, William Townsend, "I can't remember if I ever told you about meeting Hugh when I was at Oxford...
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    memoir of the months he spent there. From April to July 1907 the writer Hugh Walpole was the children's tutor. In 1908, Elizabeth von Arnim moved to London...
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  • Cixin, sequel to The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest, a novel by Hugh Walpole Dark Forest, afterlife in the Warriors series by Erin Hunter Dark Forest...
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    from Germany in 1939. His mother is distantly related to British writer Hugh Walpole. Of his early religious upbringing, Handler said, "I had a fairly standard...
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    script Rebecca including Clemence Dane, John Balderston, Ben Hecht, and Hugh Walpole.: 40  By November 1938, Selznick eventually agreed to pay Hitchcock $5...
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