Horace Walpole

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

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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...
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, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
58 (1778): 111
The Critical, which allowed that her observations were frequently both judicious...
Occupation Charlotte Lennox
Horace Walpole saw CL on stage at Richmond, and thought her performance deplorable.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Dedications Ellis Cornelia Knight
ECK published an epistolary historical novel in two volumes called Marcus Flaminius, with a dedication to Horace Walpole , who had recently become Earl of Orford.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 568
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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...
Textual Features Isabella Kelly
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.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 14-117.
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The family situation of the hero seems transcribed...
Publishing Mary Jones
This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange : Anne, daughter of George II and the late Queen Caroline . The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ 's friend Martha Lovelace, later...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
Zoe reflects GJ 's own lifelong spiritual crisis.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
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Susanne Howe notes that it anticipates later novels by Mary Augusta Ward and J. A. Froude , which also deal with spiritual doubt.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Beginning in...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Anne Jevons
Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe , the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he...
Leisure and Society Anne Irwin
AI had her portrait painted; an engraving from it appears in Horace Walpole 's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features Barbara Hofland
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Hervey
They were married at St George's, Hanover Square, London. He was the natural son of Thomas Hervey, who in turn was one of the eight children of John, Lord Hervey .
Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, p. vii - xxii.
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Beckford, William. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822, with Interludes in Paris and London. Editor Alexander, Boyd, Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Residence Elizabeth Hervey
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...
Literary responses Elizabeth Hervey
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
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

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