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Horace Walpole, born in London, England, on September 24, 1717, was the fourth child and youngest son of the great British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford, and Catherine Shorter Walpole. The child was christened Horatio, but he disliked the name, preferring to be called Horace. Young Walpole enjoyed the advantages of ...
Horace Walpole was born in London on September 24, 1717 and educated at Eton College and Kings College, Cambridge. Upon his return from college, Walpole was elected to Parliament and served until 1768. He was the youngest son of British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. He was known as The Earl of Orford.
24 de septiembre de 1717 - 02 de marzo de 1797†. Nació en: Londres, Inglaterra. Murió en: Londres, Inglaterra. Aquí podrás encontrar los detalles de la vida del autor, pseudónimos, su obra publicada, artículos y libros que se han escrito en relación al autor.
Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter. Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a writer, politician, and architectural innovator. He was the youngest son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole and the cousin of Lord Nelson. The pseudo-Gothic castle which he built at ...
25 de feb. de 2021 · Novelas góticas que tienes que leer. Drácula de Bram Stoker. Los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe. Los misterios de Udolfo de Ann Radcliffe. El monje de Matthew Gregory Lewis. La abadía de Northanger de Jane Austen. Melmoth el errabundo de Charles Robert Maturin. El castillo de Otranto de Horace Walpole. Entrevista con el vampiro de Anne Rice.
3 de abr. de 2024 · The History of Strawberry Hill House — The Toy House by The Thames. “It’s a little plaything-house that I got out of Mrs Chenevix’s shop and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw’ – Horace Walpole, June 1747. This bauble was once two small attached cottages by the river in Twickenham, both of which Horace bought when he was thirty.
Il castello di Otranto (The Castle of Otranto) è un romanzo di Horace Walpole del 1764, considerato il primo romanzo gotico.Ambientata nella città salentina di Otranto, nell'Italia meridionale, è l'opera che diede l'avvio al genere letterario poi diffusosi tra il tardo Settecento e l'inizio dell'Ottocento, con autori come Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis ...
