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Hace 3 días · Facsimile of Lady Walpole's handwriting etched below image and above title. Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Mounted on page 22. Provenance Purchased from Sabin; November 1928. Extent
27 de feb. de 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 5 días · 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 British prime minister.
- John Plumb
Hace 6 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 · She was among the society of George I and George Augustus, Prince of Wales, and counted amongst her friends Molly Skerritt, Lady Walpole, John, Lord Hervey, Mary Astell, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Alexander Pope, John Gay, and Abbé Antonio Schinella Conti.In December 1715, at the age of twenty-six, Lady Mary contracted smallpox.
Hace 4 días · La sinaloense María del Rosario Espinoza, escribió una historia gloriosa dentro del taekwondo mexicano gracias a su talento y entrega en una actividad que empezó como un juego en su natal Guasave y que, con el paso del tiempo, logró ganarse un lugar en el contexto internacional con tres medallas olímpicas y mundiales.
Hace 5 días · His wife, with whom he had been on indifferent terms, died in 1737, and he was married by March 3, 1738, to his mistress of long-standing, Maria Skerritt, a woman of great charm and wit. Three months later she died in childbirth. The war with Spain did not prosper, and opposition continued to mount against Walpole.
