Horace Walpole (1964) was widely acclaimed when it first appeared as the best life of Walpole yet written. It is scholarly and thorough, and since then there is no reason to believe that it has been displaced.
1. Introduction 2. Parentage, Childhood and Schooldays (1717–35) 3. Cambridge (1735–9) 4. The Grand Tour (1739–41) 5. London and Houghton (1741–5) 6. London (1745–7) 7. Preparations for a Career (1747) 8. The First Decade at Strawberry Hill (1747–57) 9. The Middle Years: Literary and Social Life (1757–65) 10. The Middle Years: Political Life (1754–65) 11. Madame du Deffand: and the Later Writings (1765–71) 12. Chatterton: and the Later Decades (1769–88) 13. The Final Years (1788–97)
Biography
R.W. Ketton-Cremer
