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    Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ˈwɔːlpoʊl/; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian...
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    Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward. It is a typical example of the "Strawberry...
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    is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word...
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    Leadam (1899), p. 205. Walpole, Horace (1774). "A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole earl of Orford, at Strawberry-hill...
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    1781) Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 4th Viscount Walpole, 4th Baron Walpole of Houghton, 3rd Baron Walpole of Walpole (1717–1797) Horatio Walpole, 1st...
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    Exeter, and the official witnesses were Sir Edward and his brother, Horace Walpole. The Earl Waldegrave died on 28 April 1763. They had three children:...
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    writing, as by Horace Walpole, George Mason and Humphry Repton. Walpole also referred to them as Kent-fences, named after William Kent. Walpole surmised that...
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    Bridgeman and William Kent are often overlooked; even Kent's champion Horace Walpole allowed that Kent "was succeeded by a very able master". Lancelot Brown...
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    settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled "A Gothic Story"...
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    with Horace Walpole, Gray, and others, and shortly afterwards, got into trouble[clarification needed] with Sir Horace Mann. In 1743 Horace Walpole critically...
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