Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… multiple stays in Italy and his later visit to St. Petersburg. They mostly stem from Walpole ’s Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third (1845), their veracity called into question due to Walpole’s inveterately low opinion of Dashwood. … life. Walpole describes him as having ‘the familiarity and phrase 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 more certainty is the journal Dashwood …
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