This is the first volume in
The Herries Chronicles. Here’s a quote from a website:
"The author describes the series as follows: "My intention is simply to record scenes from the life of an English family during two hundred years of English change and fortune, and beyond that to pay a tribute to a part of England that I dearly love." The four books in the chronicle are..."
Rogue Herries (1930)
Judith Paris (1931)
The Fortress (1932)
Vanessa (1933)
There is also a prequel to the Chronicles, entitled
The Bright Pavilions. Another novel, unfinished at the time of the author’s death, is called
Katherine Christian. This was supposed to tie these two novels to the other 4 novels.
I’ll be working on the other 3 volumes (in addition to
The Bright Pavilions and
Katherine Christian) and will post the 2nd volume as soon as I finish Walpole’s
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925) which has a Jekyll & Hyde theme of possession. Walpole calls
Portrait a “romantic macabre.”
I hope you enjoy this first volume in
The Herries Chronicles.
Don
Note: Walpole apparently used the word "Chronicle" when discussing the four books; however, I have seen a majority of references referring to the books as "Chronicles."
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