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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] The initial edition was titled in full: The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈ w ɔː l p oʊ l /; 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 his ...
The house is described by Walpole as "the scene that inspired, the author of The Castle of Otranto", though Michael Snodin has observed: "it is an interesting comment on 18th-century sensibility that the melancholy interiors of The Castle of Otranto were suggested by the light, elegant, even whimsical rooms at Strawberry Hill". [4]
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Otranto is the setting of Horace Walpole's book The Castle of Otranto, which is generally held to be the first Gothic novel. Walpole had chosen the town from a map of the Kingdom of Naples because the name was "well-sounding"; he was not aware that Otranto had a castle until 1786, some twenty-two years after the novel was first published under ...
Horatio Walpole may refer to: Horatio Walpole (died 1717) (1663–1717), MP for Castle Rising; Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton (1678–1757) Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–1797), author of The Castle of Otranto (1764) Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1723–1809) Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (1752–1822)
The Castle of Otranto is widely regarded as the first Gothic novel, and, with its knights, villains, wronged maidens, haunted corridors and things that go bump in the night, is the spiritual godfather of Frankenstein and Dracula, the creaking floorboards of Edgar Allan Poe and the shifting stairs and walking portraits of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts.
Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both; it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a ...
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