It was the most famous house in Georgian England, but for some it was a sham and an architectural failure. Amanda Vickery considers its eccentric creator.
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This year is the 250th anniversary of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, first published on Christmas Eve 1764 as a seasonal ghost...
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TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the novel “The Castle of Otranto” written by Horace Walpole has been released in the Iranian book market.
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In connection with the fall exhibition “The Paradox of Pearls: Accessorizing Identities in the Eighteenth Century,” the Library presents a lecture and a...
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SINCE TO CRITICISE the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's letters to Cole is impossible, for there cannot in the whole universe exist a single human being...
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Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, wore many hats in his life: youngest son of Britain's first prime minister, Robert Walpole;...
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Here, surrounded by identikit family homes from the 1930s, stands Strawberry Hill, the one-time country estate of Horace Walpole.
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Horace Walpole, author and patron of the arts, is known for his extensive correspondence and his house Strawberry Hill, where he set up a...
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Private rooms in the pile that inspired the first Gothic novel in 1764, and a whole style of architecture, have always been off-limits to...
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As if being a writer, a member of Parliament, and the coiner of the word "serendipity" weren't enough, Horace Walpole (1717-1797) ushered in Britain's...
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