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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn. 1: 7 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe
, the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's father, Thomas Manners
, first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn
for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September... |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
8 August 1757: Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics...
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8 August 1757
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Texts
Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
Reed, Joseph W. et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1925.
Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press, 1983.