Horace Walpole

AD lived at Strawberry Hill from the time that Horace Walpole left it to her until 1811.

The house, reached by a steep cart-track with hairpin bends, stood in an olive grove with a grapevine over the door. RF went back to England the following autumn, and was still there when Sillitoe...

BH explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III (who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck ) and expose Henry VII as a villain. She used the British Museum again...

HM writes her Hints in full political consciousness of the likelihood that she is trying to shape a future ruler. Her claim to have remained uninfluenced by Wollstonecraft or Catharine Macaulay (whom she called patriotic...

Bibliographer James Raven suggests that the gothic accoutrements here seem rather in tongue-in-cheek, somewhat in the manner of Horace Walpole 's The Castle of Otranto. The family situation of the hero seems transcribed...

LAC 's late writings share some characteristics of diary, biography, and autobiography. In some texts she writes in the first person, in others in the third. Her thinking is dynastic. She dwells on the web...

A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. The story is set during the reign of...

In 1775 she told Horace Walpole , in reply to verse flattery from him, that she was Conscious that oft she felt the Muse's pow'r, / But conscious too, she felt it oft in vain.

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...

Again AR 's influences are Walpole and Reeve . Such elements as the heroine's unconsciously offering herself to the male gaze, revealing intimate physical charms as she lies asleep, probably do not stem directly...

Although Sir Joshua Reynolds supposed MBCL insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, and Rose E. McCalmont in Memoirs of the Binghams, 1915, was dismissive about her artistic work, Horace Walpole

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...

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...

The Lewis Walpole Library holds four volumes of AD 's notebooks, containing extracts from her own letters addressed to a woman who must be Mary Berry , thirteen complete letters from her to Horace Walpole

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...