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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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley
's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances... |
| 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. |
| 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 edition, Yale University Press, 1937–1983, 48 vols. 34:131) |
| 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
... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Although Sir Joshua Reynolds
supposed MBCL
insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols. 8: 238 |
| 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 Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns. 1779. title-page, prelims |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | She was an ornament of high society and sought out literary friends. She was, for instance, a long-term friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole
, who published her writings on his private press at Strawberry Hill |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | 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... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | 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. qtd. in Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii. xviii |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | A somewhat belated notice in the Critical Review specifically approved this epilogue; Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 5th series: 53 (1782): 315 Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii. xxii |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | Walpole
thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it. qtd. in Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii. xx |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | She dedicated it to her correspondent, the Margrave
,saying that she exposes her letters to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends. Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789. Journery prelims 4 |
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.
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.