Horace Walpole

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

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Cultural formation Thomas Gray
Apart from his abusive father, another vital factor in TG 's life was his homosexuality, which has been freely discussed by scholars only fairly recently. This informed his early friendships with Richard West and Horace Walpole
Dedications Ellis Cornelia Knight
ECK published an epistolary historical novel in two volumes called Marcus Flaminius, with a dedication to Horace Walpole , who had recently become Earl of Orford.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 568
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dedications Hannah More
HM sent Horace Walpole a copy of her poem Florio, which was dedicated to him.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
13: 361
Dedications Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Lady Craven published for the Author her Modern Anecdote of the Family of Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotschderns, A Tale for Christmas 1779, a little book no bigger than a silver penny,
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
11: 108
dedicating it to Horace Walpole .
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns. 1779.
title-page, prelims
Education Thomas Chatterton
As well as a basic school education, the young TC (who had been thought slow as a small child) taught himself an astonishing range of abstruse subjects, mostly historical, by reading in circulating libraries and...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Damer
Her father, Henry Seymour Conway , was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Damer
Horace Walpole was Anne's godfather.
Noble, Percy. Anne Seymour Damer: A Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828. Kegan Paul, 1908.
5
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Gunning
It was known that Lorne had been in the running before Blandford, who was financially and socially a better catch. Gossips speculated. Love-letters from Blandford, and a letter from the Duke of Marlborough welcoming EG
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan
He was a relation (through his mother) of Agmondesham (or Agmondisham) Vesey , second husband of the bluestocking Elizabeth Vesey . From 1782 he was a member of the Club associated with Samuel Johnson ...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA 's father, Thomas Manners , first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Harcourt
MH 's brother-in-law, Simon Harcourt, later the second earl , was married to Elizabeth , née Vernon, 1746-1826, who was a life-writer (like Mary), a social poet, and a collector of manuscript verse. This couple...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Berry
Anne Damer acted as supporter and confidante of each, and freely interpreted O'Hara's feelings and actions to MB . He for his part became close to Damer and anxious that Berry at this turning point...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Robinson
MR 's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton , an army colonel and a pitiless hero in...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Hervey
They were married at St George's, Hanover Square, London. He was the natural son of Thomas Hervey, who in turn was one of the eight children of John, Lord Hervey .
Hervey, Elizabeth, 1748 - 1820. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. vii - xxii.
viii
Beckford, William. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822, with Interludes in Paris and London. Editor Alexander, Boyd, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.
202n2
It...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Elizabeth wrote years later that her mother, Lady Berkeley, born Elizabeth Drax , had in general no love for children.
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn, 1826, 2 vols.
1: 7
Horace Walpole once wrote of Lady Berkeley that there is nothing as...

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22 October 1741: Horace Walpole reported the vogue for Peg...

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22 October 1741

Horace Walpole reported the vogue for Peg Woffington 's acting, which he thought due not to its quality but to her achievement in clawing her way up from poverty.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 113

18 February 1742: Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the...

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18 February 1742

Horace Walpole noted at a masquerade the popularity of Mary Queen of Scots costumes, and those dressed like Van Dyck portraits in vaguely seventeenth-century style.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 181-2

14 July 1742: Horace Walpole was diverted by the great...

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14 July 1742

Horace Walpole was diverted by the great physical strength of a servant-maid helping to rescue goods in danger of burning in a house fire; he thought it particularly comic that she had the pastoral name...

17 July 1742: At least six women died after being arrested...

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17 July 1742

At least six women died after being arrested in the streets at night and crammed into a round-house (i.e. a lock-up) in St Martin in the Fields, London.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 258-9
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
129

January 1750: English roads and streets were hotbeds of...

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January 1750

English roads and streets were hotbeds of crime, said Horace Walpole , because of destitute disbanded soldiers and sailors.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
490
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
2: 423 and note

3 December 1751: Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...

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3 December 1751

Christopher Smart , as Mrs Mary Midnight, opened his vaudeville and satire act at the Castle Tavern, an act Horace Walpole called the lowest buffoonery in the world.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 257, 276-7, 313

November 1753: Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem,...

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November 1753

Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem, The Judgment of Solomon, in which two women dispute the ownership not of a baby but a gigantic phallus (with man attached).
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
222-4

8 August 1757: Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics...

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8 August 1757

Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics The Bard and The Progress of Poesy).
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: xlii

22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...

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22 September 1761

King George III and Queen Charlotte were crowned; Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray each left a vivid account of the occasion, while Catherine Talbot wrote a prose poem about non-attendance, about spending a festal day...

24 December 1764: Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto,...

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24 December 1764

Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, dedicated to Lady Mary Coke .
Reed, Joseph W., Jr et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
xviii, 13

24 April 1769: Kitty Clive gave her farewell performance....

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24 April 1769

Kitty Clive gave her farewell performance. She had enjoyed great success as a comic actress, and some as a playwright.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 1400-1

15-21 June 1772: A series of London banking firms collapsed...

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15-21 June 1772

A series of London banking firms collapsed after the bank associated with Alexander Fordyce stopped payment; ensuing panic brought the biggest stock-market crash since the South Sea Bubble burst in late 1720.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
93 and n2

1786: Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with...

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1786

Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with his deliberately provocative Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, privately printed but strategically circulated.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
270
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
249n54

18 April 1791: Horace Walpole reported that sedan chairs...

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18 April 1791

Horace Walpole reported that sedan chairs were dying out as a form of transport: London was now too big.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 416

Texts

Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
Reed, Joseph W., Jr et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. Thomas Lowndes, 1764.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1925, 16 vols.
Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale edition, Yale University Press, 1983, 48 vols.
Walpole, Horace. Works. Editor Berry, Mary, G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798, 5 vols.