Horace Walpole

John Damer had lost £20,000 at the gaming tables in a single night not long before his death—a sum to cast a shadow over his expectations of inheriting £30,000. In fact after John's death...

AD was also a scholar (Horace Walpole said she wrote Latin like Pliny ) and a book-collector. She patronised writing by women, by subscribing (for instance) to Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Catherine Jemmat

AD 's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Lady Melbourne , Joanna Baillie , Sarah Siddons , the Berrysisters , the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach)

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

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...

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

A stage of the work was privately and anonymously printed as A Catalogue of Plants Copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, finished in the year 1778, and disposed in alphabetical order, according to the generic...

In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...

Horace Walpole published at his home-basedStrawberry Hill Press a 75-copy edition of The Sleep-Walker by Lady Craven (later EMA ), a translation and adaptation of Antoine de Fériol de Pont-De-Veyle 's French comedy La...

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, dedicating it to Horace Walpole .

Elizabeth wrote years later that her mother, Lady Berkeley, born Elizabeth Drax , had in general no love for children.Horace Walpole once wrote of Lady Berkeley that there is nothing as...

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

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...

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.

A somewhat belated notice in the Critical Review specifically approved this epilogue; so did Horace Walpole .