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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly... |
| Textual Production | Anne Wharton | This means that someone saw her work as a saleable property, and someone else wanted to keep it from print. It is not known who, or for what motives. The manuscript of the verse drama... |
| Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Novels adapted by MW
are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells
, aired on Radio 4
in 1984 and runner-up... |
| Literary responses | Melesina Trench | Before publishing MT
's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald
. Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole
and Robert Southey
. He showed... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Tey | Shortly before her death, JT
published her best-known detective novel, The Daughter of Time, which successfully popularised revisionist theories about Richard III
. The title alludes to |
| Leisure and Society | Agnes Strickland | AS
in time became something of a social celebrity as a result of various factors: the popularity of her published works, their royal and romantic subject-matter, and the reclusiveness of her elder sister, who left... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton
, an army colonel and a pitiless hero in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | Her publisher, Dilly
, paid her £10 for the copyright. Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977. xii |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to... |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | This time a review (again dealing in imagination with a man) quoted from the preface, and pronounced: This is no common novel—it may, in some respects, claim a place upon the same shelf with The... |
| Textual Features | Ann Radcliffe | It is set, as the title implies, in the Highlands of Scotland. The hero, Osbert, is a Scots peasant who proves to be of noble birth. The novel stands squarely in the gothic tradition... |
| Textual Features | Ann Radcliffe | Again AR
's influences are Walpole
and Reeve
. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 58-9 |
| Travel | Ann Radcliffe | Within a month or so they were off again, to the English Lake District, visiting their relations in the north on the way (AR
's parents were now settled in Chesterfield). This... |
Timeline
22 October 1741: Horace Walpole reported the vogue for Peg...
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22 October 1741
Horace Walpole
reported the vogue for Peg Woffington
's acting, which he thought due not to its quality but to her achievement in clawing her way up from poverty.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 113
18 February 1742: Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the...
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18 February 1742
Horace Walpole
noted at a masquerade the popularity of Mary Queen of Scots
costumes, and those dressed like Van Dyck portraits in vaguely seventeenth-century style.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 181-2
14 July 1742: Horace Walpole was diverted by the great...
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14 July 1742
Horace Walpole
was diverted by the great physical strength of a servant-maid helping to rescue goods in danger of burning in a house fire; he thought it particularly comic that she had the pastoral name...
17 July 1742: At least six women died after being arrested...
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17 July 1742
At least six women died after being arrested in the streets at night and crammed into a round-house (i.e. a lock-up) in St Martin in the Fields, London.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 258-9
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
129
January 1750: English roads and streets were hotbeds of...
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January 1750
English roads and streets were hotbeds of crime, said Horace Walpole
, because of destitute disbanded soldiers and sailors.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
490
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
2: 423 and note
3 December 1751: Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...
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3 December 1751
Christopher Smart
, as Mrs Mary Midnight, opened his vaudeville and satire act at the Castle Tavern, an act Horace Walpole
called the lowest buffoonery in the world.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 257, 276-7, 313
November 1753: Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem,...
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November 1753
Horace Walpole
penned a pornographic poem, The Judgment of Solomon, in which two women dispute the ownership not of a baby but a gigantic phallus (with man attached).
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49. 222-4
8 August 1757: Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics...
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8 August 1757
Thomas Gray
published his Two Odes (the Pindarics The Bard and The Progress of Poesy).
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: xlii
22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...
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22 September 1761
King George III
and Queen Charlotte
were crowned; Horace Walpole
and Thomas Gray
each left a vivid account of the occasion, while Catherine Talbot
wrote a prose poem about non-attendance, about spending a festal day...
24 December 1764: Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto,...
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24 December 1764
Horace Walpole
published The Castle of Otranto, dedicated to Lady Mary Coke
.
Reed, Joseph W., Jr et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
xviii, 13
24 April 1769: Kitty Clive gave her farewell performance....
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24 April 1769
Kitty Clive
gave her farewell performance. She had enjoyed great success as a comic actress, and some as a playwright.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1400-1
15-21 June 1772: A series of London banking firms collapsed...
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15-21 June 1772
A series of London banking firms collapsed after the bank associated with Alexander Fordyce
stopped payment; ensuing panic brought the biggest stock-market crash since the South Sea Bubble burst in late 1720.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
93 and n2
1786: Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with...
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1786
Richard Payne Knight
caused an outcry with his deliberately provocative Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, privately printed but strategically circulated.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
270
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49. 249n54
18 April 1791: Horace Walpole reported that sedan chairs...
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18 April 1791
Horace Walpole
reported that sedan chairs were dying out as a form of transport: London was now too big.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 416
Texts
Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
Reed, Joseph W., Jr et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. Thomas Lowndes, 1764.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1925, 16 vols.
Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale edition, Yale University Press, 1983, 48 vols.
Walpole, Horace. Works. Editor Berry, Mary, G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798, 5 vols.