Horace Walpole

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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford

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Literary responses Hannah More
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...
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
The Monthly Review gave CM 's modern history a long, respectful notice in several issues, praising her manly energy.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
58 (1778): 111
The Critical, which allowed that her observations were frequently both judicious...
Literary responses Mary Delany
In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature.
qtd. in
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 203-35.
224
But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...
Literary responses Hannah More
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.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
70
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
303-4
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents.
qtd. in
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
173
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
74
But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...
Literary responses Hannah More
This work became an overnight best-seller. Queen Charlotte dismissed her Sunday hairdresser. A fifth edition was needed by April, and two more followed within a few more months. All had large print-runs.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
109, 104
The...
Literary responses Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
A somewhat belated notice in the Critical Review specifically approved this epilogue;
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th series: 53 (1782): 315
so did Horace Walpole .
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.
xxii
Literary responses Hannah More
An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World was praised in letters by many of HM 's friends and associates.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
112
Walpole wrote: It is prettily written, but her enthusiasm increases.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 385
It...
Literary responses Teresia Constantia Phillips
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...
Literary responses Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Walpole thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it.
qtd. in
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.
xx
The Critical Review, covering it early the next year, claimed not to know the author's identity but...
Literary responses Mary Wollstonecraft
The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
Frances Burney thought this the best of all Barbauld's poems. Hannah More wrote to thank ALB for writing so well on a subject so near her, More's heart,
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
111
and recommended the poem to Elizabeth Montagu
Literary responses Anna Miller
Her publisher, Charles Dilly , praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
195
Horace Walpole wrote: The poor Arcadian patroness does not spell one word of French or Italian...
Literary responses Melesina Trench
Before publishing MT 's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald . Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole and Robert Southey . He showed...
Literary responses Ellis Cornelia Knight
In a letter to Lady Upper Ossory on October 14, 1792, Walpole noted that There is so much learning and good sense well digested . . . that it is impossible not to admire the...

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