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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
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| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Elizabeth wrote years later that her mother, Lady Berkeley, born Elizabeth Drax
, had in general no love for children. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Her father, Henry Seymour Conway
, was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gunning | It was known that Lorne had been in the running before Blandford, who was financially and socially a better catch. Gossips speculated. Love-letters from Blandford, and a letter from the Duke of Marlborough welcoming EG |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | He was a relation (through his mother) of Agmondesham (or Agmondisham) Vesey
, second husband of the bluestocking Elizabeth Vesey
. From 1782 he was a member of the Club associated with Samuel Johnson
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Horace Walpole
was Anne's godfather. Noble, Percy. Anne Seymour Damer: A Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828. Kegan Paul. 5 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Harcourt | MH
's brother-in-law, Simon Harcourt, later the second earl
, was married to Elizabeth
, née Vernon, 1746-1826, who was a life-writer (like Mary), a social poet, and a collector of manuscript verse. This couple... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | They were married at St George's, Hanover Square, London. He was the natural son of Thomas Hervey, who in turn was one of the eight children of John, Lord Hervey
. Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, p. vii - xxii. viii Beckford, William. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822, with Interludes in Paris and London. Editor Alexander, Boyd, Rupert Hart-Davis. 202n2 |
| Education | Thomas Chatterton | As well as a basic school education, the young TC
(who had been thought slow as a small child) taught himself an astonishing range of abstruse subjects, mostly historical, by reading in circulating libraries and... |
| Dedications | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Lady Craven
published for the Author her Modern Anecdote of the Family of Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotschderns, A Tale for Christmas 1779, a little book no bigger than a silver penny, Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 11: 108 Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns. title-page, prelims |
| Dedications | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
published an epistolary historical novel in two volumes called Marcus Flaminius, with a dedication to Horace Walpole
, who had recently become Earl of Orford. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 568 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Dedications | Hannah More | HM
sent Horace Walpole
a copy of her poem Florio, which was dedicated to him. Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 13: 361 |
| Cultural formation | Thomas Gray | Apart from his abusive father, another vital factor in TG
's life was his homosexuality, which has been freely discussed by scholars only fairly recently. This informed his early friendships with Richard West
and Horace Walpole |
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