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Walpole, Horace
English novelist, letter writer and politician, the son of Robert Walpole. He was a Whig member of Parliament 1741–67.
He converted his house at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (then a separate town southwest of London), into a Gothic castle; his The Castle of Otranto (1764) established the genre of the Gothic, or ‘romance of terror’, novel. More than 4,000 of his letters have been published. He became Earl in 1791.
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