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Horace Walpole. Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈwɔːlpoʊl /; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. [1] He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before ...
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]
Strawberry Hill House —often called simply Strawberry 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 Hill Gothic " style of architecture, [ 1 ] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the "Gothic Revival" style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole The Gothic Temple folly in the gardens at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, UK, built as a ruin in 1741, designed by James Gibbs [7] Gothic literature is strongly associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. English Gothic writers ...
Horace Walpole had recommended its installation, however, John Chute eschewed Walpole's favoured Gothic and after a great deal of consideration of alternative styles designing himself a staircase in Palladian style. [32] The stairs are considered one of the notable features of the house.
The first work to call itself "Gothic" was Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). [2] Walpole's declared aim was to combine elements of the medieval romance, which he deemed too fanciful, and the modern novel, which he considered to be too confined to strict realism. [3] Walpole's novel was popular but did not initially prompt many ...
Smith identifies the italicized phrase in line 11 as an allusion to Horace Walpole's controversial Gothic play The Mysterious Mother (1768). The Countess of Narbonne is warned to stay indoors due to a violent storm, and replies, "Wretches like me, good Peter, dread no storms.
The chapel is an example of early Gothic Revival architecture and is a Grade I listed building. [1] The chapel was built for Horace Walpole in 1772–74 and was in the grounds of his home, Strawberry Hill House. Subsequent building separated the chapel from the house, as the nearest parts of those grounds have been built on with what is now St ...