The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 33 - With the Countess of Upper Ossory, II, 1778-1787

One of Walpole's longest and liveliest correspondences was the Lady Ossory (formerly Duchess of Grafton), providing her, in her country retirement, a dazzling narrative of London's social life from 1761 until Walpole's death in 1797. The letters are in his happiest vein; in them he "most consciously practised the art of letter-writing." Of the 450 letters, including some written by Walpole to her husband and daughter, 48 are here printed for the first time, one them being the only survivint letter written to him by Lady Ossory. Commenting on the series, the "Times Literary Supplement" has said, "The editing of the volumes is as fine as ever: the notes are as illuminating and erudite, the result of an almost incredible thoroughness of research.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: W. S. Lewis, Horace Walpole
• Mitarbeit: W. S. Lewis (Herausgeber), Wilmarth S. Lewis (Herausgeber), Lewis W. S. (Herausgeber), Edwine M. Martz (Herausgeber), Alva Dayle Wallace (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 10.09.1965
• EAN: 9780300007152
• ISBN: 978-0-300-00715-2
• Seiten: 587
• Gewicht: 1574 g
• Illustration: 10 b-w illus.
• Serien: Yale Edition of Horace Walpole; The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence; The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Diaries, letters and journals, C 1700 To C 1800