Horace Walpole
English writer and politician (1717–1797)
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Horace Walpole parlayed a political career into a second act as a prolific writer and antiquarian obsessed with Gothic aesthetics. His letters became literary gold, his country estate a museum of curiosities.
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
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