The complete online text of Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.

Horace Walpole was a significant figure in literary history, but his reputation would stand even higher if he had excelled in what today are regarded as the "major" genres. He wrote a pioneering book which initiated the Gothic novel; he produced a high-f...

Horace Walpole is known to literary scholars as the founder of a significant literary genre, the gothic novel, which he initiated with the publication of The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of On...

Horace Walpole's literary productions reflect an extraordinary range of talents and interests: author of the first and most influential Gothic novel in English and of the first example of Gothic drama, he was also a poet, an indefatigable letter writer,...

What does it mean to talk about sexuality in the eighteenth century? What can historians of sexuality accomplish without the keyhole testimonies that prove our subjects had sex with members of their own gender? Scholars often, for obvious reasons, ignore the nagging sense that...

BOOK Few can resist the Gothic charms of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, says Neil Manson Cameron Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle. By Anna Chalcraft and Judith Viscardi. Frances Lincoln, 160pp, £25.00 In his own lifetime, Horace Walpole's idiosyncratic castle in Neo-Medieval style...