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Hace 2 días · Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Quite remarkably, Horace Walpole (1717-97) was responsible for both the first Gothic novel and the first Gothic ...
17 de may. de 2024 · Once described by Horace Walpole as 'the palace of palaces', Osterley was created in the late 18th century by architect and designer Robert Adam for the Child family to entertain and impress their friends and clients. Today the house is presented as it would have looked in the 1780s.
Hace 1 día · Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. [2] [3] The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present. [4]
Hace 3 días · That old prince of gossips, Horace Walpole, writes thus to Miss Berry, and her sister, in 1791:—"Though London increases every day, and Mr. Herschel has just discovered a new square or circus somewhere by the New Road, in the 'Via Lactea,' where the cows used to be fed, I believe you will think the town cannot hold all its inhabitants, so prodigiously the population is augmented.
Hace 4 días · Horace Walpole, comparing Wolverhampton with Lichfield in 1743, thought that the latter was 'as indolent as the former was busy', and a visitor in 1782, noting the absence of industry, commented that 'the silence of the streets is interrupted only by the passage of public carriages'.
Hace 5 días · In the 41st of Henry III. a fine was levied between Isabel, and Walter de Denver, and Alice his wife, tenents of a moiety of 2 carucates of land, 4l. 11s. 0½d. rent, with the moiety of the rent of 8000 turf in Walpole, Tylney, Well, and Lynn, which Isabel claimed as her part of the inheritance of Henry, son of Osbert de Walpole, nephew of Isabel and Alice, which Isabel released to Alice, with ...
Hace 5 días · English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
