King and his newly-married second wife, Lady Lanesborough
, arrived at Florence in Italy, hotly pursued by his first wife with two of her young children (one of the future writers, that is, if...
Friends, Associates
Mary Berry
As was standard for such tours they established contact to varying degrees with eminent people: they were presented to the Pope
at Rome and to Queen Maria Carolina
at Naples. (In the same manner, on...
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 edition, Yale University Press, 1937–1983, 48 vols.
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Travel
Anne Damer
In the first winter of her widowhood AD
went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann
). This voyage...