Fortitude

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist of considerable esteem in the early to mid-20th century, whose career flourished from the 1910s until his death in 1941. Walpole was born on March 13, 1884, in New Zealand, but his family returned to England when he was five years old. Once in England, he was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His narrative te...