Horace Walpole

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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford

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Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...
Literary responses Hannah More
Percy was a great hit, with twenty-one performances, and 4,000 copies sold by March 1777. HM made £600 from it in the theatre, and £150 from Cadell for the copyright. She thought, however, the public...
Literary responses Elizabeth Hervey
The Critical Review once again praised the style and characters. It judged the novel too long and its plot too complicated, but that the whole was certainly superior to the majority of flimsy publications of...
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
As she had for her earlier volumes, CM got for this one the Critical's lead review of the month. The journal was still prepared to accept her critical attitude towards the monarchy: Our author...
Literary responses Hannah More
The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM 's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however...
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
The Monthly Review gave CM 's modern history a long, respectful notice in several issues, praising her manly energy.
Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
58 (1778): 111
The Critical, which allowed that her observations were frequently both judicious...
Literary responses Hannah More
Walpole eulogised the fertility of ideas in the poem, but Anna Letitia Barbauld , as a Dissenter unconvinced of the moral excellence of the Church of England, wrote a stinging riposte.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
70
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
303-4
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
173
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
74
But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...
Literary responses Hannah More
This work became an overnight best-seller. Queen Charlotte dismissed her Sunday hairdresser. A fifth edition was needed by April, and two more followed within a few more months. All had large print-runs.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
109, 104
The...
Literary responses Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley 's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances...
Literary responses Hannah More
An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World was praised in letters by many of HM 's friends and associates.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
112
Walpole wrote: It is prettily written, but her enthusiasm increases.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon.
14: 385
It...
Literary responses Mary Delany
In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature.
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, pp. 203-35.
224
But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...
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...
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.

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