''Rogue Herries'' is a historical romance novel by

Hugh Walpole Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among ...

which was first published in 1930. It is set in

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scottish ...

in the 18th century. The title character is Francis Herries who is nicknamed Rogue for his wild and reckless ways. The novel was the first of several about the Herries family – the '' Herries Chronicles''. The story was inspired partly by Walpole's love of creating family trees and their imaginary history. It was also inspired by his childhood in

Gosforth Gosforth is an area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, situated north of the Newcastle City Centre, City Centre. It constituted a separate Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district of Northumberland from 1895 until 1974 before of ...

, where he started an adventure story about smugglers on the Cumberland coast there – his first attempt at writing. When published by Doubleday in the US, it was #7 in the ''Publishers Weekly'' list of bestselling novels for 1930.

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1930 British novels Doubleday, Doran books Macmillan Publishers books Novels by Hugh Walpole Novels set in the Lake District {{1930s-romance-novel-stub