Horace Walpole

The Lewis Walpole Library holds four volumes of AD 's notebooks, containing extracts from her own letters addressed to a woman who must be Mary Berry , thirteen complete letters from her to Horace Walpole

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...

LAC 's late writings share some characteristics of diary, biography, and autobiography. In some texts she writes in the first person, in others in the third. Her thinking is dynastic. She dwells on the web...

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. The family situation of the hero seems transcribed...

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...

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.

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...

Although Sir Joshua Reynolds supposed MBCL insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, and Rose E. McCalmont in Memoirs of the Binghams, 1915, was dismissive about her artistic work, Horace Walpole

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...

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...

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...

AD lived at Strawberry Hill from the time that Horace Walpole left it to her until 1811.

Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit. Critic Shareen Robinson describes this novel as...

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...