Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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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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| Reception | Dorothea Celesia | A prologue by William Whitehead
mentioned DC
's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics... |
| Publishing | Eliza Parsons | She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names. |
| Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The volume bore the imprint of the well-known mercuryMary Cooper
; the moving spirit behind it was Horace Walpole
. |
| Publishing | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | She dedicated it to her correspondent, the Margrave
, saying that she exposes her letters to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. G. G. J. and J. Robinson. Journery prelims 4 |
| Publishing | Hannah More | Horace Walpole
printed HM
's Bishop Bonner
's Ghost in an edition of 200 copies from his Strawberry Hill Press
. Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 1: lv; 14: 145, 155 |
| Publishing | Mary Delany | A stage of the work was privately and anonymously printed as A Catalogue of Plants Copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, finished in the year 1778, and disposed in alphabetical order, according to the generic... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Horace Walpole
published at his home-basedStrawberry Hill Press
a 75-copy edition of The Sleep-Walker by Lady Craven (later EMA
), a translation and adaptation of Antoine de Fériol de Pont-De-Veyle
's French comedy La... |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| politics | Catharine Macaulay | Horace Walpole
expressed the hope that CM
might be elected to a vacant alderman's position (like her brother
): he was not, of course, being serious. Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 22 , No. 1, pp. 35-49. 58 |
| Occupation | Anna Miller | The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
visited during the first... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Lennox | Horace Walpole
saw CL
on stage at Richmond, and thought her performance deplorable. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
| Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
was also a scholar (Horace Walpole
said she wrote Latin like Pliny
) and a book-collector. She patronised writing by women, by subscribing (for instance) to Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Catherine Jemmat |
| Occupation | Thomas Chatterton | He was apprenticed as a legal scrivener or copyist and began, using a hoard of ancient manuscripts which had been in his father's possession, to write poems and fake their physical manifestation, attributing them to... |
| Occupation | Mary More | A couple with the same names as MM
and her husband Francis were taking in apprentices in painting during the later seventeenth century, but Ezell thinks these were probably different people. Horace Walpole
knew of... |
| 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... |
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