Horace Walpole

It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...

During this year MS helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci. She worked on her own fiction to distract herself when prostrated by grief after the death of her...

Few letters survive among those which both sisters wrote regularly to Horace Walpole during the late 1780s; his to them appear as volumes 11 and 12 in the Yale edition of his correspondence. Mary also...

AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...

The Lewis Walpole Library holds four volumes of AD 's notebooks, containing extracts from her own letters addressed to a woman who must be Mary Berry , thirteen complete letters from her to Horace Walpole

This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and...

This means that someone saw her work as a saleable property, and someone else wanted to keep it from print. It is not known who, or for what motives. The manuscript of the verse drama...

Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...

MB brought Walpole two quatrains written in reply to his classical-style verse compliment to her and her sister .

MB built on her earlier work as editor of Horace Walpole by editing and publishing in four volumes the letters written to him by one of his liveliest correspondents, Madame Du Deffand . Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)

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...

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).

According to the surviving manuscript, the two women produced their verse responses on the very day that Eleanor Bowes was said (years later, by the cynical Horace Walpole ) to die of the violence of...

The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond , of Horace Walpole

Zoe reflects GJ 's own lifelong spiritual crisis.Susanne Howe notes that it anticipates later novels by Mary Augusta Ward and J. A. Froude , which also deal with spiritual doubt. Beginning in...