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Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole : Letters
I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary. What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics!
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Mysterious Mother
' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horrified ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney and Leonard Smelt Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled 'The Castle of Otranto', haunted my dreams for many a night'."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Castle of Otranto
'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well may the blood" says an expiring viscount to a peasant youth who has fallen in love with a countess and been recognised by a friar as his son, the friar thereupon proving himself a duke, and the detection of his son arising from a markt on the son's neck, which was being bared for execution, - "well may the blood which has so lately traced itself to its source boil over in the veins". (The boy had shown signs of annoyance.) I never saw anything like that before.The killing and stabbing and the wonderment produced as to why all the characters stay about the old castle, (most of them have no business there), when at least three quarters are searching for the blood of the other three quarters for monetary reasonsor for none! There are three discoveries, I think of long lost children and no end of supernaturalism; all produces a gorgeous effect.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh Print: Book
Horace Walpole : unknown
[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Horace Walpole, Lord Orford : Letters to Lady Ossory
'Mr Brand' to Mary Berry, January 1798: 'Lady Ossory, to alleviate my confinement with a very bad cold, has treated me to Lord Orford's letters to her, tho' in a very mutilated transcript, and desired my opinion about their publication.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Brand Manuscript: Unknown
Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley) : Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann
'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreeably disappointed: but now my pain and disgust are growing fast. What a horrid spirit it is!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Ontranto
'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
'Within these few days I could not have a book from the library because Mr E. had lent the "Castle of Otranto" to Miss Lowe [Love?], who happened to be there the afternoon when I was reading it; it was against the rules.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Mysterious Mother
'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third
'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measure transfused into my mind...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Works
'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Horace Walpole : [Letters]
'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published in the shape of letters'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
Horace Walpole : [Works]
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; I forgot to mention a good deal of Horace Walpole ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Letters
'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and that I like them better. I hesitated for so long before reading them, because you disparaged them to me. I do not admire herself: she is a hard, unfeeling, misanthropical old sinner. But her mind is so laid open to me, that I pardon her faults and think she could not help them, as I do and think of my own. I have finished her letters to Horace, and am quite angry there is no account of her death. I am now reading her letters to Voltaire, which I cannot endure; they are full of nothing but fulsome flattery, which disgusts me. How much true affection dignifies every thing! but flattery when seen through, is odious. I like the portaits at the end of her book'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Letters
'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfield next. Voltaire to me is charming; but then I suspect he studied his epistles, as Lord Orford certainly did, and so had little merit. Heloise wrote beautifully in the old time; but we are very poor, both in England and Scotland, as to such matters'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Sharpe Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 November 1760 to George Montagu, describing the funeral of George II.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
Horace Walpole : letters to Lord Hertford
Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you have sent me of Horace Walpole's letters to Lord Hertford, which I return. I have been very much amused by it, but [...] I believe Horace Walpole to have been as bad a man as ever lived; I cannot call him a violent party man, he had not virtue enough to be so; he was the most sensuous and selfish of mortals [comments further].'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool
Horace Walpole : Historic Doubts on Richard III
Thursday, 1 March 1827: 'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always acted at London on this day [...] Walpole's Historic Doubts threw a mist about this Reign. It is very odd to see how his mind dwells upon [them] at first as the mere sport of imagination till at length they become such Dalilahs of his imagination that he deems it far worse than infidelity to doubt his Doubts.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
Horace Walpole : 'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828: 'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole's Letters to Mr. Mason" [discusses text further] [...] [These letters] are the least amusing of Walpole's. The reason is that he and Mason had at this time no [italics]common[end italics] acquaintance, and no [italics]common[end italics] topic, but Mason's "Life of Gray" [discusses further]."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Walpoliana
[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Horace Walpole : Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:] 'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord Herbert [of Cherbury]? So few copies are dispersed, that I know Lord Chesterfield was not able to get one, and it is so amusing I wish you had it to wear away a rainy evening.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book
Horace Walpole : ?Royal and Noble Authors
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertainment in what he writes, but less I think in this than usual, and it is rather more peevish and flippant. It is a great pity he should ever write any thing but Castles of Otranto, in which species of composition he is so remarkably happy [comments further on Walpole as a history writer]'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertainment in what he writes, but less I think in this than usual, and it is rather more peevish and flippant. It is a great pity he should ever write any thing but Castles of Otranto, in which species of composition he is so remarkably happy [comments further on Walpole as a history writer]'.
