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Hace 4 días · Horace Walpole (1717–97) was an English writer, connoisseur, and collector best known for The Castle of Otranto, which was the first Gothic novel in English and among the earliest horror stories. He built the Gothic Revival mansion known as Strawberry Hill, and he was a committed writer of letters.
- Horace Walpole
Walpole’s private correspondence of some 4,000 letters...
- Horace Walpole
Hace 4 días · Chancellor of the Exchequer (1715-1717), United Kingdom. (Show more) Political Affiliation: Whig Party. Notable Family Members: son Horace Walpole. Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford (born August 26, 1676, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England—died March 18, 1745, London) was a British statesman (in power 1721–42), generally regarded as the first ...
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Hace 4 días · The Thomas Gray Archive is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the life and work of eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the acclaimed 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751).
Hace 4 días · To the distress of his son Horace, the famous man of letters, Walpole’s collection of pictures was sold to the empress of Russia by Walpole’s grandson George in 1779. Now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, it was one of the most remarkable collections in Europe.
Hace 5 días · 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 4 días · The Classics Department uses a hybrid style of citations. Ancient sources should be cited according to the Oxford referencing system, while modern sources should be cited according to the Harvard referencing system.
Hace 5 días · Orford 10 miles east of A12 (B1094/B1095), 12 miles north-east of Woodbridge (B1152/B1084) Parking: Riverside Car Park (not National Trust) on Quay Street, 150 yards from Orford Quay. Pay and display.
