Horace Walpole

Walpole thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it. The Critical Review, covering it early the next year, claimed not to know the author's identity but...

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.Horace Walpole

It was GE 's fairly short-lived affair with Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia (later Earl of Mountnorris), which caused her divorce; his was the only name of a lover mentioned during her marriage—as it was in...

The house, reached by a steep cart-track with hairpin bends, stood in an olive grove with a grapevine over the door. RF went back to England the following autumn, and was still there when Sillitoe...

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...

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...

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

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...

Walpole , son of the Prime Minister, had an ample allowance, as the middle-class Gray did not. Walpole was a socialite who delighted in the pleasures of Italy, and Gray felt neglected. Their subsequent estrangement...

This was EG 's least successful play. Both in the theatre and in print, responses sound designed to put an impudent female newcomer in her place. Bookseller Tom Davies claimed there was a positive cabal...

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

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...

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

EH was living at Brussels by 1781. In autumn 1789 she and her sons had returned from abroad and were living at Braziers Park near Ipsden in Oxfordshire, a house in the playfully Gothic...

The Critical Review once again praised the style and characters. It judged the novel too long and its plot too complicated, but that the whole was certainly superior to the majority of flimsy publications of...