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The novel was inspired by a nightmare Walpole had at Strawberry Hill House (18th-century engraving of the gothic villa pictured). [2] The Castle of Otranto was written in 1764 during Horace Walpole's tenure as MP for King's Lynn. Walpole was fascinated with medieval history, in 1749 building a fake gothic castle, Strawberry Hill House. [1]
Robert Walpole (colonel) Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: 1667–68 16 Jan 1956 287–288 The book was borrowed by Colonel Robert Walpole, the father of the first British prime minister. It was found by Professor John H. Plumb in the library of the then Marquess of Cholmondeley at Houghton Hall, Norfolk when he was working on a biography of ...
A Milton couple who run Café G at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum now own the closed Red Wing Diner in Walpole. Goodbye, Red Wing, and hello, Blondie's. Sale closes on popular dining spot ...
Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation ... (as Willard Walpole) Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg: Starring: ... Michael Lombard as James Conrad;
Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest of three children of the Rev Somerset Walpole and his wife, Mildred Helen, née Barham (1854–1925). [1] Somerset Walpole had been an assistant to the Bishop of Truro, Edward White Benson, from 1877 until 1882, when he was offered the incumbency of St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland; [2] on Benson's advice he accepted.
The Walpole family (/ ˈ w ɔː l ˌ p oʊ l, ˈ w ɒ l-/) is a famous English aristocratic family known for their 18th century political influence and for building notable country houses including Houghton Hall.
In 1932 Walpole edited The Waverley Pageant: Best Passages from the Novels of Sir Walter Scott. In 1937 he edited a compilation of short stories, A Second Century of Creepy Stories (Hutchinson, 1937), by a range of writers including Guy de Maupassant , M. R. James , Henry James, Walter de la Mare , Oliver Onions , Walpole himself ("Tarnhelm ...
Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation ... 8th Baron Walpole of Walpole, 6th Baron Walpole of Wolterton ... John Conrad Russell 1921–1987