Horace Walpole

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

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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...
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.
Occupation Anne Damer
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
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.
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Publishing Mary Delany
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...
Publishing Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
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...
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...
Publishing Eliza Parsons
She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 512
A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....
Publishing Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The volume bore the imprint of the well-known mercuryMary Cooper ; the moving spirit behind it was Horace Walpole .
Publishing Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
She dedicated it to her correspondent, the Margrave , saying that she exposes her letters to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends.
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. G. G. J. and J. Robinson.
Journery prelims 4
Horace Walpole
Publishing Hannah More
Horace Walpole printed HM 's Bishop Bonner 's Ghost in an edition of 200 copies from his Strawberry Hill Press .
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon.
1: lv; 14: 145, 155
Reception Helen Craik
Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32.
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Critic Shareen Robinson describes this novel as...
Reception Elizabeth Griffith
This was EG 's least successful play. Both in the theatre and in print, responses sound designed to put an impudent female newcomer in her place. Bookseller Tom Davies claimed there was a positive cabal...
Reception Dorothea Celesia
A prologue by William Whitehead mentioned DC 's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics...
Residence Ruth Fainlight
The house, reached by a steep cart-track with hairpin bends, stood in an olive grove with a grapevine over the door. RF went back to England the following autumn, and was still there when Sillitoe...

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