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… aux correspondances échangées avec ses compatriotes et des personnalités françaises influentes, comme Madame Du Deffand, Horace Walpole contribua largement à la diffusion du modèle du jardin anglais en France durant la seconde moitié du XVIIIe … Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Keywords Correspondence Fashion Gardens Gothic Né en 1717 à Londres, Horace Walpole est le troisième fils du célèbre ministre Robert Walpole. Après des études à Cambridge, il entreprend le …

… NPG D14939, circa 1830-1860. Abstract Mary Berry (1763-1852), renowned traveller, author, and salonnière, friend of Horace Walpole's, headed sociable circles in London but also spent time in the vicinity of Strawberry Hill. She became the … Networks and Romanticism: 'A Tribe of Authoresses' (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017), p. 99-136, p. 76. 3 . Horace Walpole, ‘To Lady Ossory, Saturday, 11 October 1788' in W. S. Lewis (ed.), The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's …

… from all over Britain were known to grace Madame du Deffand’s salon on rue Saint-Dominique.   Her correspondence with Horace Walpole gives us a window into how Franco-British epistolary relationships helped shape new spaces of sociability, both … from 1771 to 1781), and Count Ulrik Scheffer (the Swedish minister to Paris from 1744 to 1751). George Selwyn introduced Horace Walpole to ‘the blind old bat’ in 1765. She was 68 at the time. In a letter Walpole wrote in 1766 to his friend, …

… second journey to Italy in 1739 saw him briefly in the company of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) as well as Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the latter forming a decidedly unfavorable opinion of him. 6  While his time in Italy led to a … of a fish-wife […] a coarse, blunt manner of speaking’, adding that his style ‘appeared naked, vulgar, and irreverent’. Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. 172f. What can be relied on with …

… paru le 10 mai 1788. Image Richard Bentley, ‘Perspective of the hall & staircase at Strawberry Hill’, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 1754. Abstract À la faveur d’une importation de panneaux peints chinois, la vogue des … qui, du voyage jusqu’au retour au domicile, permettait la personnalisation de la collection d’estampes et sa diffusion. Horace Walpole fera un usage considérable des papiers peints à Strawberry hill, notamment pour recréer un univers … les papiers peints permettent l'expression d'une intériorité singulière, voire excentrique, comme nous le verrons avec Horace Walpole , dans son castelet gothique de Strawberry Hill. Ils permettent en effet de déployer un imaginaire ou …

… a hostess to revive the splendour of Devonshire House. Cavendish’s charm and charisma made her compelling as noted by Horace Walpole, who recorded that ‘her youth, figure, flowing good nature, sense and lively modesty, and modest familiarity, … circle of friends, and her noted charm, high spirits and high rank made her a social sensation with the ‘bon ton’. 1 . Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory, Wednesday 1st February, 1775, The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. W.S …