Horace Walpole

An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World was praised in letters by many of HM 's friends and associates.Walpole wrote: It is prettily written, but her enthusiasm increases. It...

HM writes her Hints in full political consciousness of the likelihood that she is trying to shape a future ruler. Her claim to have remained uninfluenced by Wollstonecraft or Catharine Macaulay (whom she called patriotic...

A couple with the same names as MM and her husband Francis were taking in apprentices in painting during the later seventeenth century, but Ezell thinks these were probably different people. Horace Walpole knew of...

HM sent Horace Walpole a copy of her poem Florio, which was dedicated to him.

Horace Walpole printed HM 's Bishop Bonner 's Ghost in an edition of 200 copies from his Strawberry Hill Press .

Her later friendships often blended the personal with the political, like those with Beilby Porteus (Bishop of London from 1787, where she met him) and the abolitionists William Wilberforce (met at Bath the same year)...

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...

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...

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.

A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. The story is set during the reign of...

She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names. A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....

The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson says that in JamaicaTCP acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect...

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...

It is set, as the title implies, in the Highlands of Scotland. The hero, Osbert, is a Scots peasant who proves to be of noble birth. The novel stands squarely in the gothic tradition...

Again AR 's influences are Walpole and Reeve . Such elements as the heroine's unconsciously offering herself to the male gaze, revealing intimate physical charms as she lies asleep, probably do not stem directly...