vivid plots, skill at scene-setting, and high profile as a lecturer on
literature brought him financial success and a large readership in the
UK and North America in the 1920s and 1930s, but his work has been
largely neglected since his death. Between 1909 and 1941 Walpole wrote
thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and
three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the
macabre, children's stories and historical fiction, most notably his
Herries Chronicle series, set in the English Lake District. During the
First World War he served in the Red Cross on the Russian–Austrian
front, and worked in British propaganda. He worked in Hollywood writing
scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s. Walpole
conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other
men, and eventually settled down with a married policeman in the Lake
District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of
established authors, he was in his later years a generous sponsor of
many younger writers. He bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to
the Tate Gallery and other British institutions.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Walpole>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1697:
Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish
conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala>
1845:
German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the
most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time,
was first played in Leipzig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)>
1920:
The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic government
from Berlin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch>
1988:
The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world,
opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel>
2013:
Francis was elected pope, making him the first Jesuit, the
first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the
first non-European pope in over 1,000 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hamiform:
Curved at the extremity, shaped like a hook.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hamiform>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or
simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society
detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great
Time, the sacred time.
--Mircea Eliade
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade>
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