Correspondence with Mary and Agnes Berry and Barbara Cecilia Seton
Horace WalpolePublished1944
Pages432
Formathardcover
PublisherYale University Press
Synopsis
Walpole's last ten years have been likened to the Fifth Act of a comedy: they were dominated, it has been said, by the society of the Berrys with whom he was hopelessly in love; thus was Mme du Deffand avenged, and the last curtain came down upon the old man conquered by the grand passion which he had to successfully resisted earlier.
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About Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
1717–1797
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, 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 the first Gothic novel, *The Castle of Otranto* (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. He was the son of the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. As Horace Walpole was childless, on his death his barony of Walpole descended to his cousin of the same surname, who was created the new Earl of Orford. **Source**: [Horace Walpole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole) on Wikipedia.
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