Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
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| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | In 1778 Elizabeth Craven had her portrait painted by George Romney
, apparently for Horace Walpole
, who two years later wrote that he had hung it in his favourite blue room. Romney painted... |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Anne Irwin | AI
had her portrait painted; an engraving from it appears in Horace Walpole
's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England. |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Ellis Cornelia Knight | In a letter to Lady Upper Ossory
on October 14, 1792, Walpole
noted that There is so much learning and good sense well digested . . . that it is impossible not to admire the... |
| Literary responses | Anna Miller | Her publisher, Charles Dilly
, praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. 195 |
| Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson
says that in JamaicaTCP
acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | A somewhat belated notice in the Critical Review specifically approved this epilogue; Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 5th series: 53 (1782): 315 Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xxii |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Walpole
thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xx |
| Literary responses | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Years before this Walpole
had remarked to his friend Horace Mann
that MBCL
had something of a turn towards poetry. Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press. 25: 475 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Frances Burney
thought this the best of all Barbauld's poems. Hannah More
wrote to thank ALB
for writing so well on a subject so near her, More's heart, Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge. 111 |
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