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Really, Mr. Walpole!

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Shaun Usher
Feb 17, 2021
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Rebecca West photographed by Madame Yevonde. Wikimedia.

In 1918, British novelist Hugh Walpole decided to contact a critic who, in an article in The Daily News on the subject of someone else entirely, had made a fleeting remark about Walpole’s work that was painful enough to wound him. As it happens, that critic was Rebecca West, a fellow author also fam…

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