The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, Volume 11: With Mary and Agnes Berry and Barbara Cecilia Seton
Horace Walpole
432 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0300006969
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Language: English
Publish: -798656400000
Walpole’s last ten years have been likened to the Fifth Act of a they were dominated, it has been said, by the society of the Berrys with whom he was hopelessly in love; thus was Mme du Deffand avenged, and the last curtain came down upon the old man conquered by the grand passion which he had to successfully resisted earlier.