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THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO
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THE MYSTERIOUS MOTHER
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THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO
and
THE MYSTERIOUS MOTHER
Horace Walpole
edited by Frederick S.Frank
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Walpole,Horace,1717-1797
The castle of Otranto:a gothic story,and,The mysterious mother:a tragedy / Horace
Walpole;edited by Frederick S.Frank.
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Horace Walpole,
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Contents
Acknowledgements •
List of Illustrations •
Introduction •
Horace Walpole:A Brief Chronology •
Publication History of The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious
Mother •
Using the Edition •
The Castle of Otranto;A Gothic Story •
Preface to the First Edition •
Preface to the Second Edition •
Sonnet to the Right Honourable Lady Mary Coke •
The Mysterious Mother;A Tragedy •
Preface to the Edition •
Advertisement from the Publishers •
Appendix A:Walpole’s Correspondence and Strawberry Hill •
. The Castle of Otranto in Walpole’s Letters •
. The Mysterious Mother in Walpole’s Letters •
. The Little Gothic Villa at Strawberry Hill •
Appendix B:Responses and Reactions •
. Three Early Reviews of The Castle of Otranto •
. Notices of The Mysterious Mother •
. Two Poems:Ann Yearsley’s “To the Honourable H––––
W–––––,on Reading T C Ot
December,”and John Courtenay’s “Letter the Seventh,
Naples,April ,” •
. Comments on The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother
by Early Readers •
Appendix C:Aesthetic and Intellectual Backgrounds •
. The Graveyard Poets:Alexander Pope,Thomas Parnell,John
Dyer,David Mallet,Edward Young,Robert Blair,Mark
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Akenside,William Collins,Thomas Warton the Younger,
Thomas Gray •
. From James Hervey’s Meditations Among the Tombs •
. From Bishop Richard Hurd’s Letters on Chivalry and Romance
•
. From Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin
of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful •
Appendix D:Sir Walter Scott’s Introduction to the Edition
of The Castle of Otranto •
Glossary •
Bibliography •
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Acknowledgements
I wish to express my gratitude to several people and institutions
for their assistance and guidance in the preparation of this book.
Thanks to Professor Julie Hayes of the University of Richmond
for putting me in touch with important critical material on The
Mysterious Mother at an early stage of the project. Thanks to Pro-
fessor Douglass H. Thomson of Georgia Southern University and
Professor James C. Bulman of Allegheny College for their gener-
ous erudition and support. I am deeply indebted to Professor
Jean-Paul Carton of Georgia Southern University for contribut-
ing expert English translations of all of the French passages from
Walpole’s correspondence and other writings. The staffs of several
libraries also responded magnanimously to my numerous requests
for information. I thank the Rare Book Department of the
Alderman Library,University of Virginia,and its curator,Kathryn
Morgan;the Lewis Walpole Library of Yale University,Farming-
ton,Connecticut,and its curator,Margaret Powell;and the entire
staff of the Pelletier Library of Allegheny College, Meadville,
Pennsylvania for their many services and favors.I must also recog-
nize the patience and expertise of three Broadview Press editors,
Barbara Conolly, Leonard Conolly, and the vigilant copy editor,
Colleen Franklin. As always,my wife Nancy Frank has helped my
work in infinite ways that can never fully be repaid.
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List of Illustrations
. Horace Walpole,by Allan Ramsay, •
. The Castle of Otranto,the Italian Edition of •
. Title Page Facsimile,First Edition of The Castle of Otranto,
•
. Title Page Facsimile,Second Edition of The Castle of Otranto,
•
. The Death of Conrad,Chapter I of The Castle of Otranto,
drawing by F. Gilbert,Dicks’Standard Plays, •
. The Walking Portrait of Ricardo,Chapter I of The Castle of
Otranto,by Anthony Higmore •
. Frederic Encounters the Skeletal Monk,Chapter V of The
Castle of Otranto,by Bertie Greatheed the Younger •
. Willey Reveley’s Drawing of the Real Castle of Otranto,
•
. Title Page Facsimile,First Edition of The Mysterious Mother •
. Horace Walpole,Pariset’s Engraving from Falconet’s Drawing,
•
. The Chorus of Orphans,The Mysterious Mother, Act II,Scene ,
by Lady Diana Beauclerc, •
. The Countess,Father Benedict,and Edmund,The Mysterious
Mother,Act III,Scene ,by Lady Diana Beauclerc, •
. Strawberry Hill,Round Tower and Skyline,,photograph
by F.S. Frank •
. Strawberry Hill,the South Front,drawing by Joseph Farrington
•
. Strawberry Hill,the North Front,drawing by Thomas
Rowlandson, •
. Strawberry Hill,the East Front,drawing by J.H. Müntz •
. Strawberry Hill,the Prior’s Garden and North Front •
. Strawberry Hill,Staircase and Bannister,engraving by J.
Newton •
. Strawberry Hill,Chapel or Tribune,drawing by Edward
Edwards, •
. Strawberry Hill,The Gallery •
