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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… London’, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (vol. 34, no. 4, 2017), p. 279-297. 4 . On the excessive height of the Pagoda, Horace Walpole commented ‘we begin to perceive the Tower of Kew from Montpellier Row; in a fortnight you will see it in Yorkshire’. Horace Walpole, letter to Earl of Strafford, July 5, 1761, in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, ed. Peter …
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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… that enabled her to strike a lifelong friendship with David Garrick and his wife Eva and to lionize Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole . What has been called ‘the Complicated Temptation of the theatre’ 2   reveals a tension at the heart of her …
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]

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Saint James's [ Cities ]

… for a sociable culture deployed in numerous visits − often made by women − as well as balls and assemblies (Greig 139). Horace Walpole , who attended the reception at the opening of the state apartments at Norfolk House, commented: ‘ All the earth … Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 1st series (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), vol. 3, p. 409; The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, 16 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), vol. 3, February 12, 1756, p. 396. St …
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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… leurs collections dans les demeures situées à la campagne ou à proximité de Londres, comme celle installée par Horace Walpole dans sa demeure de Strawberry Hill, située près de Twickenham. 9  Visitant Castle Howard en août 1772, Walpole … of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Oxford Art Journal (vol. 29, n° 2, 2006), p. 167–84. 9 . Horace Walpole, A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole: Youngest Son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at …
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

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Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… described the visitors as ‘nobility and gentry’: this was a way of differentiating the new garden on social grounds. Horace Walpole writes that the visitors would find the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cumberland (another son of the King), but …
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]

… deeds – wooing the Czarina by pretending to be Charles XII and flogging penitents in the Sistine Chapel – stem from Horace Walpole (1717-1797), 12  whose lifelong antipathy towards Dashwood makes him figure as a less reliable source. While … it must have happened during or shortly after Dashwood’s Divan Club, which held its last meeting on May 25 th 1746. 12 . Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. 172f. 13 . Nathaniel Wraxall, …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]

… selling point for the Georgian portrait painter.  3 . George Vertue, ‘Vertue Notebooks: Vertue III’, The Volumes of the Walpole Society (vol. 22, 1933–4), p. 25. Portraitists’ studios were, indeed, places where polite manners were … works, exhibiting large numbers of portraits, or just a chosen few. On one occasion even, in 1781, recorded by Horace Walpole in his  Anecdotes of Painting in England , a concert was organised in Thomas Beach’s showroom in Bath, 9   … hung to serve as a bait for prospective clients and feed their aspirations to momentary celebrity in paint. 9 . Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England: 1760-1795, ed. F.W. Hilles and P.B. Daghlian (New Haven and London, …
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Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]

… Dowager of Cleveland. 9 O ne of the most famous bets of the history of gentlemen’s clubs was reported in a letter from Horace Walpole to his friend Horace Mann: They have put in the papers a good story made on White’s: a man dropped dead at the door, was carried in; …
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