Sir Hugh Walpole and the United States: A Novelist's View of 1919-1936 America

by Elizabeth Steele

This study attempts to show when, where and how novelist, Hugh Walpole, author of forty-two books of fiction and two famous screenplays, came to typify the image of the genius British Lecturer in the minds of many Americans. The number of British literary men and women lecturing in America between the two World Wars was, and continues to seem, remarkable. Among them, Hugh Walpole was considered one of the best, touring America five times for two decades,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773455329
• ISBN13: 9780773455320
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 215 Pages