Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, p. vii - xxii.
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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. Beckford, William. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822, with Interludes in Paris and London. Editor Alexander, Boyd, Rupert Hart-Davis. 202n2 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton
, an army colonel and a pitiless hero 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's father, Thomas Manners
, first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn
for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's supposed great-grandfather, allegedly the father of Colonel Frederick, was Theodore Baron von Neuhoff
, a German military adventurer who had wide-ranging international experience before supporting the Corsican independence struggle. In April 1736 he... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | It was GE
's fairly short-lived affair with Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia
(later Earl of Mountnorris), which caused her divorce; his was the only name of a lover mentioned during her marriage—as it was in... |
| 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 |
| Education | Thomas Chatterton | As well as a basic school education, the young TC
(who had been thought slow as a small child) taught himself an astonishing range of abstruse subjects, mostly historical, by reading in circulating libraries and... |
| 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. |
| Dedications | Hannah More | HM
sent Horace Walpole
a copy of her poem Florio, which was dedicated to him. Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 13: 361 |
| Dedications | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Lady Craven
published for the Author her Modern Anecdote of the Family of Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotschderns, A Tale for Christmas 1779, a little book no bigger than a silver penny, Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 11: 108 Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns. title-page, prelims |
| Cultural formation | Thomas Gray | Apart from his abusive father, another vital factor in TG
's life was his homosexuality, which has been freely discussed by scholars only fairly recently. This informed his early friendships with Richard West
and Horace Walpole |
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