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Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour

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Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884–1941), novelist, was born in New Zealand and came to England aged five. His short experience of teaching is reflected in his third novel, Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911), which set a vogue for novels and plays about schoolmasters. Other works include the Herries Chronicle, a historical sequence set in Cumberland consisting of Rogue Herries (1930), Judith Paris (1931), The Fortress (1932), and Vanessa (1933). Although proud of his popularity, he worried that his work was ‘old-fashioned’ and expressed envy of the Modernism of his friend and correspondent V. Woolf.

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