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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈ w ɔː l p oʊ l /; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.
Horace Walpole, właśc. Horatio Walpole 4. hrabia Orford (ur. 24 września 1717 w Londynie, zm. 2 marca 1797 tamże) – angielski pisarz i arystokrata, syn Roberta Walpole’a, pierwszego premiera Wielkiej Brytanii. Był jednym z twórców gotycyzmu. Od 1791 był hrabią Orford. Od 1741 zasiadał w brytyjskim parlamencie.
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) was an influential English writer, politician, and art historian, best known for his role in the literary and cultural circles of 18th-century England.
Strawberry Hill House —often called simply Strawberry Hill —is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward. It is a typical example of the " Strawberry Hill Gothic " style of architecture, [ 1 ] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
Horace Walpole, born in London, England, on September 24, 1717, was the fourth child and youngest son of the great British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford, and Catherine Shorter Walpole. The child was christened Horatio, but he disliked the name, preferring to be called Horace.
20 gru 2010 · The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, published for the first time in 1764 and called by his author “a wild story”, gave rise to gothic story, which became one of the most important horror “forefathers”. Walpole’s intention was to rejuvenate an old literary genre, the romance.
20 wrz 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.
