The Horace Walpole Page

( 1717 - 1797 )

Major Works
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England ( 1758; 1787 ).
Anecdotes of Painting in England ( 1762 - 71; 1782 ).
The Castle of Otranto ( 1765 ).
Historic Doubts on Richard III ( 1768 ).
The Mysterious Mother ( 1768 ). A tragedy.
Walpole was, over the course of some sixty years, a voluminous letter-writer, and letters form the bulk of his works.
A Selection of the Letters of Horace Walpole. Two Volumes. Edited by W. S. Lewis. Harper's, 1926.
Correspondence. Edited by W. S. Lewis. Yale, 1937 -

About Walpole
R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Horace Walpole: A Biography. Longmans, Green, 1940. Cornell, 1964.
W. S. Lewis, Horace Walpole. Pantheon, 1961.
A Horace Reading: An Introduction to the Mercury House Edition of Horace Walpole's Hieroglyphic Tales by Thomas Christensen.
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill from London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (U.K.).

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