Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford II

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Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford II

Fiction: general and literary

Author: Horace Walpole

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Language: English

Published by: anboco

Published on: 1st September 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 908 Kb

ISBN: 9783736412521


Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford — also known as Horace Walpole — was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest.He was the son of first British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. As he was childless, his barony descended to his cousin of the same surname, who was created the new Earl of Orford.

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