Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press.
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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Anne Damer | John Damer had lost £20,000 at the gaming tables in a single night not long before his death—a sum to cast a shadow over his expectations of inheriting £30,000. |
| Travel | Thomas Gray | The great adventure of Gray's life was his accompanying Horace Walpole
on the Grand Tour, 1739-41. Each young man left a vivid description of their passage over the Alps into Italy. Their time abroad... |
| Travel | Ann Radcliffe | Within a month or so they were off again, to the English Lake District, visiting their relations in the north on the way (AR
's parents were now settled in Chesterfield). This... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Geraldine Jewsbury | Zoe reflects GJ
's own lifelong spiritual crisis. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 223-4 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 72 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond
, of Horace Walpole |
| Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | 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... |
| Textual Production | Anne Wharton | This means that someone saw her work as a saleable property, and someone else wanted to keep it from print. It is not known who, or for what motives. The manuscript of the verse drama... |
| Textual Production | Anne Conway | This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole
in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and... |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci. Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 385-11. 388 |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Sir William Elford had suggested to MRM
by 1824 that (always needing money) she might publish her letters to him. She replied that, if she published, her free comments on books and authors would make... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Horace Walpole
received from a mutual friend, the Countess of Upper Ossory
, some verses by MBCL
(whom the big Yale
edition of Walpole's correspondence is unable to identify). Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press. 34:131) |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | According to the surviving manuscript, the two women produced their verse responses on the very day that Eleanor Bowes was said (years later, by the cynical Horace Walpole
) to die of the violence of... |
| Textual Production | Anne Damer | 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... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | 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... |
Timeline
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
8 August 1757: Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics...
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8 August 1757
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Texts
Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
Reed, Joseph W. et al. “Introduction”. The Castle of Otranto, edited by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1925.
Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press, 1983.