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Horace Walpole
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.
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The Castle of Otranto
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The Letters of Horace Walpole
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Anecdotes of painting in England
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The secret life of Laszlo, Count Dracula
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Hieroglyphic tales
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Horace Walpole and his world
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Horace Walpole's correspondence with Sir Horace Mann
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Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the Third
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Shorter Novels of the Eighteenth Century
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Memoirs of the reign of King George the Second
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Letters
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Walpoliana
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A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England
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Correspondence Of Horace Walpole With George Montagu, Esq
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Castle of Otranto / Mysteries of Udolpho / Northanger Abbey
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A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England
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Three Eighteenth Century Romances
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Memoirs of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second
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The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford
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Some unpublished letters of Horace Walpole
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The best letters of Horace Walpole
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A counter-address to the public, on the late dismission of a general officer
