Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press.
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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The volume bore the imprint of the well-known mercuryMary Cooper
; the moving spirit behind it was Horace Walpole
. |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Sir William Elford had suggested to MRM
by 1824 that (always needing money) she might publish her letters to him. She replied that, if she published, her free comments on books and authors would make... |
| Occupation | Anna Miller | The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
visited during the first... |
| Literary responses | Anna Miller | Her publisher, Charles Dilly
, praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Miller | Her mother, born Margaret Pigott
, came from a long-established Shropshire family and probably had literary interests, since she was a member of the circle of independent-minded women formed around Sarah Scott
and Lady Barbara Montagu |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | 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... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Horace Walpole
received from a mutual friend, the Countess of Upper Ossory
, some verses by MBCL
(whom the big Yale
edition of Walpole's correspondence is unable to identify). Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press. 34:131) |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | He was a relation (through his mother) of Agmondesham (or Agmondisham) Vesey
, second husband of the bluestocking Elizabeth Vesey
. From 1782 he was a member of the Club associated with Samuel Johnson
... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Although Sir Joshua Reynolds
supposed MBCL
insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 8: 238 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Years before this Walpole
had remarked to his friend Horace Mann
that MBCL
had something of a turn towards poetry. Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press. 25: 475 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
| 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... |
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