Horace Walpole

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

Her publisher, Dilly , paid her £10 for the copyright. In CR 's exaggeratedly humble preface she acknowledges her work to be the literary offspring of the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole —whom...

One of the many novels which RNC chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)...

The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to...

The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft , and its epigraphs to...

The mode is that of Ann Radcliffe . The names of the characters are all Italian, though the French or Spanish setting implied by the title is reflected in the appearance in the text of...

Shortly before her death, JT published her best-known detective novel, The Daughter of Time, which successfully popularised revisionist theories about Richard III . The title alludes to Francis Bacon, who wrote that truth...

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...

AI had her portrait painted; an engraving from it appears in Horace Walpole 's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England.

AS in time became something of a social celebrity as a result of various factors: the popularity of her published works, their royal and romantic subject-matter, and the reclusiveness of her elder sister, who left...

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...

Years before this Walpole had remarked to his friend Horace Mann that MBCL had something of a turn towards poetry.

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...

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...

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...