Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | 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... |
| Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | BH
explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III
(who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck
) and expose Henry VII
as a villain. She used the British Museum
again... |
| Leisure and Society | Anne Irwin | AI
had her portrait painted; an engraving from it appears in Horace Walpole
's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe
, the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Kelly | Bibliographer James Raven
suggests that the gothic accoutrements here seem rather in tongue-in-cheek, somewhat in the manner of Horace Walpole
's The Castle of Otranto. Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 14-117. 33 |
| 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. 2: 568 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Literary responses | Ellis Cornelia Knight | In a letter to Lady Upper Ossory
on October 14, 1792, Walpole
noted that There is so much learning and good sense well digested . . . that it is impossible not to admire the... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Lennox | Horace Walpole
saw CL
on stage at Richmond, and thought her performance deplorable. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Walpole
thought CM
's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke
(coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 74 |
| politics | Catharine Macaulay | Horace Walpole
expressed the hope that CM
might be elected to a vacant alderman's position (like her brother
): he was not, of course, being serious. Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 22 , No. 1, pp. 35-49. 58 |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | 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... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | 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... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The Monthly Review gave CM
's modern history a long, respectful notice in several issues, praising her manly energy. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 58 (1778): 111 |
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