Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (born March 13, 1884 in Auckland , New Zealand , † June 1, 1941 in London , England) was a British writer .
Life
Hugh Walpole, born in New Zealand in 1884 to a bishop , came to England at the age of five. There he attended King's School ( Canterbury ) and Emmanuel College ( Cambridge ).
In 1907 he taught the children of Elizabeth von Armin on the Nassenheide estate in Pomerania . He got to know her through a previous Oxford study contact with her husband, Henning von Armin .
He was both prolific and versatile as a writer. In addition to the four volumes of the Herries Chronicles , his most famous work, which is often compared to John Galsworthy's Forsythe Saga , he wrote novels for young people (the Jeremy series) and macabre horror stories (à la Edgar Allan Poe ) - here, above all, is Portrait of a Calling Man with Red Hair .
For the star-studded Hollywood film David Copperfield (1935) he prepared the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens for a screenplay and also took on the role of vicar under the direction of George Cukor . A year later he also wrote the screenplay for the literary film adaptation of The Little Lord .
A well-known and widely read author during his lifetime, Walpole slowly and undeservedly fell into oblivion after his death in 1941. He is buried at St John's Church in Keswick.
Works
Novels
- 1909: The Wooden Horse
- 1910: Marradick At Forty
- 1911: Mr Perrin and Mt Traill ( Isabel and the teacher Perrin )
- 1912: The Prelude to Adventure
- 1913: Fortitude
- 1914: The Duchess of Wrexe ( The Duchess of Wrexe )
- 1916: The Dark Forest ( The dark forest )
- 1918: The Green Mirror ( The green mirror )
- 1919: The Secret City
- 1919: Jeremy ( Jeremy - Childhood Novel )
- 1920: The Captives
- 1921: The Young Enchanted
- 1922: The Cathedral
- 1923: Jeremy and Hamlet ( Jeremy and his dog ) - Note: In the German translation by Toni Harten-Hoencke, J. Engelhorns Nachf. Stuttgart, without the year, the year of publication of the English original is indicated on the title page as 1913.
- 1924: The Old Ladies (not translated)
- 1925: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair ( image of a red-haired man )
- 1926: Harmer John (not translated)
- 1927: Jeremy at Crale ( Jeremy at School )
- 1928: Wintersmoon (not translated)
- 1929: Farthing Hall (with JB Priestley) (not translated)
- 1929: Hans Frost (not translated)
- 1931: Above the Dark Circus
- 1934: Captain Nicholas
- 1935: The Inquisitor
- 1936: A Prayer for my Son
- 1937: John Cornelius (not translated)
- 1938: The Joyful Delaneys
- The happy Delaneys . Translation Ilse Krämer . Zurich, Gutenberg Book Guild, 1955
- 1939: The Sea Tower ( The tower on the sea )
- 1940: The Bright Pavilions ( God's Pleasure Gardens )
- 1941: The Blind Man's House
- 1941: The Killer and the Slain ( The murderer and his victim )
- 1944: Katherine Christian ( Katherine Christian )
The Herries Chronicles
- 1930: Rogue Herries ( Herries the Vagant )
- 1931: Judith Paris ( Judith Paris )
- 1932: The Fortress ( Fortress )
- 1933: Vanessa ( Vanessa )
literature
- Rupert Hart-Davis: Hugh Walpole. A biography . Hamish Hamilton, London 1985, ISBN 0-241-11406-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hugh Walpole in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sir Hugh Walpole in Cumbria
- http://www.violetbooks.com/walpole-bib.html
- Hugh Walpole in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walpole, Hugh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walpole, Hugh Seymour (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auckland , New Zealand |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1941 |
| Place of death | London , England |