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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]

… Résumé 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 … through letters, which provided her with support. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Travel Literature Salon Horace Walpole Epistolary friendship Mary Berry (1763-1852) headed and participated in sociable circles in London and on …

Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]

… 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 real and imagined. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Friendship Correspondence Epistolary Letter Salon Horace Walpole Lespinasse Geoffrin Madame du Deffand, née Marie de Vichy-Champrond, was born in 1698 into an old but …

Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… 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 Mots-clés Correspondence Gothic Gardens Fashion Né en 1717 à Londres, Horace Walpole est le troisième fils du célèbre ministre Robert Walpole. Après des études à Cambridge, il entreprend le …

Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]

… 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 gothique. … 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 …

Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]

… 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 …

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]

… 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 …