Rogue Herries (Herries Chronicles)

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Barrenechea, J. F.; Luque, F. J.; Millward, D.; Ortega, L.; Beyssac, O.; Rodas, M. (2009). "Graphite morphologies from the Borrowdale deposit (NW England, UK): Raman and SIMS data" (PDF). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 158 (1): 37–51. Bibcode: 2009CoMP..158...37B. doi: 10.1007/s00410-008-0369-y. S2CID 53976864.

Francis Herries, a man who has clearly done much to earn the sobriquet ‘Rogue’, has uprooted his family from their Yorkshire home, because he knew that his sins would soon catch up with him if he stayed. The travelling party includes his wife; his two daughters, Mary and Deborah; his only son, David; his loyal manservant; a woman who carries the title of housekeeper but is in fact his mistress; and a priest who held some very strong views…. As Francis struggles with his feelings for Mirabelle, his son David and daughter Deborah have battles of their own to fight. Meanwhile, the Jacobite rising has begun, and Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebel army is at the gates of Carlisle... Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Green covers with blind stamped decoration and gilt titles to front. Gilt decoration and titles to spine. Internally very clean with tiny name at top of ffep. Eps. Maps. Fold out family tree in rear.851pp. Hugh Walpole's Study of the English Lakes – A Biography of the Lake District", The Daily Mail, 30 May 1930, p. 12 The Lake District is great all year round, but you are right, in October it could be cool and grey. And wet. But that wouldn’t stop me! Just dress appropriately! Waterproof boots, full waterproof body coverage, layers, hat and gloves. Map and compass. Free U.K. phone app ‘OS Locate’ gives you a compass, your altitude and six figure grid ref so you can identify your exact position on a paper map.Pringle, David (1996). St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers. London: St. James Press. ISBN 1558622063.

HARDCOVER. Condition: GOOD. 1955-01-01. The Reprint Society. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ acceptable. Slight foxing. Walpole was sent to England, where according to his biographer Rupert Hart-Davis the next ten years were the unhappiest time of Walpole's life. [6] He first attended a preparatory school in Truro. Though he missed his family and felt lonely he was reasonably happy, but he moved to Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow in 1895, where he was bullied, frightened and miserable. He later said, "The food was inadequate, the morality was 'twisted', and Terror – sheer, stark unblinking Terror – stared down every one of its passages... The excessive desire to be loved that has always played so enormous a part in my life was bred largely, I think, from the neglect I suffered there". [7] The King's School, Canterbury a b c d e f g Steele, Elizabeth. "Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884–1941)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 23 November 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required) Maugham assured Walpole that he was not the model for Alroy Kear, who, Maugham averred, was chiefly based on himself. After Walpole's death Maugham admitted that this was a lie. [82] Maugham's biographer Selina Hastings quotes a contemporary's view that Kear was Maugham's revenge on Walpole for "a stolen boyfriend, an unrequited love and an old canker of jealousy". [83] Walpole, Hugh. "Why didn't I put Poison in his Coffee?" John O'London's Weekly, 11 October 1940, quoted in Hart-Davis, p. 264I’ll be interested to know how you get on with Walpole though and if you think I should add ‘Rogue Herries’ to my ever growing ‘to read’ list! The article was revised and reprinted in James's 1914 book Notes on Novelists under the title "The New Novel". [39] Steele, Elizabeth (2006). Sir Hugh Walpole and the United States – A Novelist's View of 1919–1936 America. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0773455329.

He was aware that his popularity might not be enduring, accurately predicting in his diary in 1935: Driven by a wild romantic impulse, Francis Herries uproots his family from Doncaster to the lakeland valley of Borrowdale. Accompanied by his housekeeper/mistress, Alice, they settle in his tumbledown ancestral home, Herries, in the shadow of the Cumberland fells. I thought that sale might have consequences later in the story, but it didn’t. Nor did the departure of the priest, or the compassion shown to a woman judged to be a witch, or the introduction of the wider family, or the flight of Mary, who had inherited her father’s pride and independence, and who thought that she deserved a better life. These are about hard people with hard lives. I love this whole series, although Judith Paris has to be my favourite. Don't be put off by some of the older covers - usually made by people who knew nothing of the book but what some overworked editing clerk threw down in a short note, or from an inaccurate pre-publishing blurb.Other admirers included Conrad, who wrote "We see Mr Walpole grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his characteristic earnestness". A BBC Radio adaptation of Hugh Walpole's historical novel, set in the Lake District during the 18th Century Set in the Lake District, this is a little like Poldark, I feel: a family saga featuring a red-haired beauty.

A. C. Benson was a friend of Henry James, to whom Walpole wrote a fan letter late in 1908, with Benson's encouragement. A correspondence ensued and in February 1909 James invited Walpole to lunch at the Reform Club in London. They developed a close friendship, described by James's biographer Leon Edel as resembling a father and son relationship in some, but not all, respects. [27] James was greatly taken with the young Walpole, though clear-eyed about the deficiencies in the artistry and craftsmanship of his protégé's early efforts. According to Somerset Maugham, Walpole made a sexual proposition to James, who was too inhibited to respond. [28] Nevertheless, in their correspondence the older man's devotion was couched in extravagant terms. [27] [29] Henry James and Arnold Bennett, who encouraged the young Walpole I would confess to never having read any of the ‘Herries Chronicles’ novels, so kudos to you for giving it a go. I’m told Walpole tells a good tale, but the novels fell from the general public’s taste after his death. Stewart, J. I. M. (1956). "Biography". In Lehmann, John (ed.). The Craft of Letters in England: A Symposium. London: Cresset Press. OCLC 752864196. During his career contemporaries saw both negative and positive sides to Walpole's outgoing nature and desire to be in the public eye. Wodehouse commented, "I always think Hugh Walpole's reputation was two thirds publicity. He was always endorsing books and speaking at lunches and so on." [120] On the other hand, Walpole stood out as one of the few literary figures willing to go into court and give evidence for the defence at the obscenity trial after the 1928 lesbian novel by Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, was published. [121] a b Steele, Elizabeth. "A Change of Villains: Hugh Walpole, Henry James, and Arnold Bennett", Colby Quarterly, Volume 17, September 1981, pp. 184–192Borrowdale is within the Copeland UK Parliamentary constituency and the North West England European Parliamentary constituency. Trudy Harrison is the Member of parliament. Though Walpole was no admirer of the schools he had attended there, the cathedral cities of Truro, Canterbury and Durham made a strong impression on him. He drew on aspects of them for his fictional cathedral city of Polchester in Glebeshire, the setting of many of his later books. Walpole's memories of his time at Canterbury grew mellower over the years; it was the only school he mentioned in his Who's Who entry. [13] Cambridge, Liverpool and teaching [ edit ] A. C. Benson, an early mentor. Lyttelton, George; Rupert Hart-Davis (1978). Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters, Volume 1. London: John Murray. ISBN 071953478X. This was a much longer book than I expected but, for me at least, none the worse for that. I’m pretty sure my mother’s book must have been an abridged version of all four novels although I remember at the time I’d been proud and surprised I’d read such a big book. 😁