Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole was born in 1717 as the son of Robert Walpole, generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he became a member of Parliament but devoted the bulk of his energy to literary, artistic, and architectural pursuits. His most famous creation beyond The Castle of Otranto was Strawberry Hill House, a villa in Twickenham that he rebuilt in a fanciful Gothic Revival style, establishing the aesthetic connection between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature that persists to this day. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Castle of Otranto.