Horace Walpole

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Monthly Review gave CM 's modern history a long, respectful notice in several issues, praising her manly energy. The Critical, which allowed that her observations were frequently both judicious...

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.

In 1778 Elizabeth Craven had her portrait painted by George Romney , apparently for Horace Walpole , who two years later wrote that he had hung it in his favourite blue room. Romney painted...

AI had her portrait painted; an engraving from it appears in Horace Walpole 's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England.

AS in time became something of a social celebrity as a result of various factors: the popularity of her published works, their royal and romantic subject-matter, and the reclusiveness of her elder sister, who left...

Shortly before her death, JT published her best-known detective novel, The Daughter of Time, which successfully popularised revisionist theories about Richard III . The title alludes to Francis Bacon, who wrote that truth...

The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft , and its epigraphs to...

The mode is that of Ann Radcliffe . The names of the characters are all Italian, though the French or Spanish setting implied by the title is reflected in the appearance in the text of...

The book, with a great proliferation of minor characters and episodes, amounts to a treatise on the interweaving of gender, class, and education. The title-page quotes both Martial and Horace Walpole (who had been LMH

Her publisher, Dilly , paid her £10 for the copyright. In CR 's exaggeratedly humble preface she acknowledges her work to be the literary offspring of the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole —whom...

The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to...