The Castle of Otranto

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The Castle of Otranto is about Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The novel opens on the day of matrimony of his unwell son Conrad and princess Isabella. Just before the ceremony, though, Conrad is trodden to death by an enormous hood that plummets on him from overhead. This baffling incident is above all threatening considering an old divination, “that the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it”. Manfred, frightened that Conrad’s death hints the initiation of the last days for his heritage, agrees to deter obliteration by marrying Isabella himself while separating with his present wife Hippolita, whom he senses could not give birth to a suitable successor.

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford also called as Horace Walpole, was a British art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig statesman.

He had Strawberry Hill House constructed in Twickenham, south-west London, restoring the Gothic fashion a few years before his Victorian descendants. His literary character lies on his Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto and his Letters, which are of important communal and administrative relevance.

He was the son of the first British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. As Horace Walpole has no child, on his demise his barony pervaded to his cousin of the alike family name, who became the new Earl of Orford.

Horace was born in London, the youngest son of British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and his wife Catherine. Same as his father, he got a primary instruction in Bexley, he also studied at Eton College and King’s College in Cambridge.

Horace’s first acquaintances were perhaps his cousins Francis and Henry Conway, to whom Horace was deeply connected, particularly Henry. At Eton, he created with Charles Lyttelton and George Montagu the Triumvirate, a league of young men.
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