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sinfonia-relativa · 1 year
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Horace Walpole
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livesunique · 1 year
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Strawberry Hill House,
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Twickenham, United Kingdom
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white-fang-22 · 2 months
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"Este mundo es una comedia para quienes piensan, y una tragedia para quienes sienten"
-----Horace Walpole
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bonesashesglass · 2 months
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Palestine mentioned in The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, 1764.
Israel can pretend all they want, Palestine has always existed. It’s in the fabric of our literature, our history.
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queerasfact · 6 months
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Happy birthday Horace Walpole!
Horace was born on 24 September 1717. Here he is, the probably gay, asexual inventor of gothic fiction, enjoying a relaxed afternoon in the library with his dog. To share some key facts about Horace on this important day:
He authored the seminal gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, and also coined the incredibly gothic word 'gloomth'
He once wrote to a possible lover “My satisfaction arises from your passion not from my own…” and was described by friends as “untost by [sexual] passions”.
He wrote poetry about a fairy named Patapan, after his dog.
Learn more
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noosphe-re · 11 months
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Etymology of ‘serendipity’
serendipity (n.)
"faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries," a rare word before 20c., coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann dated Jan. 28, 1754, but which apparently was not published until 1833.
Walpole said he formed the word from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip" (an English version was published in 1722) whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of" [Walpole].
Serendip, (also Serendib), attested by 1708 in English, is an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), from Arabic Sarandib, from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island."
Attention was called to the word in an article in The Saturday Review of June 16, 1877 ["An ungrateful world has probably almost forgotten Horace Walpole's attempt to enrich the English language with the term "Serendipity." etc.]; it begins to turn up in publication 1890s but still is not in Century Dictionary (1902) .
—https://www.etymonline.com/word/serendipity
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octaviasdread · 11 months
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Strawberry Hill House, London - Created by Horace Walpole as a Home & Folly
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dimrememberedstory · 2 years
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Portraits of famous 18th and 19th-century Gothic fiction writers.
Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797) // Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) // Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 - 1818) // Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) // Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) // Anne (1820 - 1849), Emily (1818 - 1848), and Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855) // Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) // Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)
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amphibious-thing · 24 days
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It’s actually really interesting that Walpole is the earliest source for this quote. I usually see Wharncliffe’s phrasing cited as reliable and Walpole’s as the misquote but Walpole recorded it in the 1740s much closer to the period than Wharncliffe nearly a century later. It’s become better known as “this world consisted of men, women, and Herveys” but I wonder if “there were three sexes; men, women, & Herveys” is actually more accurate. Unfortunately there is no way of knowing without a more direct source.
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leer-reading-lire · 10 months
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || June || 10 || Books And Sunshine
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appleinducedsleep · 1 month
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The next transition of his soul was to exquisite villainy.
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
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setdeco · 2 years
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HORACE WALPOLE, Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham, UK, 1749-76
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Staff Pick of the Week
À la Poupée
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. The first edition was published anonymously in 1764 by Thomas Lowndes in London, followed in quick succession by a second edition published by Lowndes and William Bathoe in 1765, this time with the Walpole’s preface acknowledging his authorship, and a third edition published by Bathoe alone in 1766. Several more editions were published before the end to the 18th century, and honestly, the republishing frenzy hasn’t really abated much since.
The first illustrated edition was an Italian translation published in London in 1795, which included seven, color copperplate engravings of scenes from the story. These same plates appeared the next year in an English-language edition published in London by Edward Jeffery. We hold the second Jeffery edition of 1800, which includes the same color plates, shown here. When I first saw these prints, I automatically assumed they were hand-colored plates, as printing by color separation was not successfully accomplished in the West until the 1830s. I have learned since, however, that they are in fact color prints done through a process referred to as à la poupée, an early technique of intaglio color printing where different ink colors are carefully applied to desired areas of a single plate, with one pass through the press to create a color image. The term, which translates as “with the doll,” refers to the “doll” or ball-shaped wad of cloth used to apply the color.
The plates were engraved by Scottish engraver Andrew Birrell from drawings by "a lady." The "lady" was Anne Millicent Clarke, the daughter of Ann Radcliffe, a leading author of gothic fiction in the 1790s. You can read much more about the history of the prints and their publishing in this article. Our copy is bound in a contemporary full-leather binding with lovely marbled endpapers, also shown here.
I was so taken with learning about this process -- something I should have learned years ago -- that I just had to share.
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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections.
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electronicsquid · 5 months
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Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, his dogs, and his Horace Walpole library
(Nina Leen. 1944)
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gloomygalore · 2 months
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