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Hace 5 días · Walpole, in the second edition, revealed himself as the author which adding the subtitle "A Gothic Story." The revelation prompted a backlash from readers, who considered it inappropriate for a modern author to write a supernatural story in a rational age. Walpole did not initially prompt many imitators.
Hace 5 días · In the most infamous incident, Captain Robert Jenkins claimed to have had his ear cut off in a confrontation with a Spanish boarding party (see box below). Public pressure drove the peace-loving administration of Sir Robert Walpole, prime minister since 1721 and the dominant political personality of his age, reluctantly to war with Spain.
Hace 5 días · Robert Walpole: 1676–1745 1726 Later Earl of Orford (Then) Current Prime Minister
Hace 1 día · The Gothic novel, beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), was an important precursor of one strain of Romanticism, with a delight in horror and threat, and exotic picturesque settings, matched in Walpole's case by his role in the early revival of Gothic architecture.
Hace 5 días · Title. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c. Creator. Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Published / Created.
Hace 5 días · Robert Walpole, George I’s Whig Prime Minister, is labelled a Tory and his rule a ‘Tory settlement’ (pp. 21, 38), although the word ‘Tory’ (from the Irish tóraidhe meaning outlaw) was initially a term of abuse for opponents of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Protestant succession.
Hace 5 días · The growth of social reading platforms such as Goodreads and LibraryThing enables us to analyze reading activity at very large scale and in remarkable detail.
