Editing Horace Walpole (section)

==Strawberry Hill==
[[File:Strawberry Hill House from garden in 2012 after restoration.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Strawberry Hill House]] in [[Twickenham]]<!-- in 2012-->]]

Walpole's lasting architectural creation is [[Strawberry Hill House|Strawberry Hill]], the home he built from 1749 onward in [[Twickenham]], southwest of London, which at the time overlooked the [[River Thames|Thames]]. Here he revived the Gothic style many decades before his Victorian successors. Derided thereafter by his friends as "The Abbot of Strawberry", this fanciful [[neo-Gothic]] concoction began a new architectural trend.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sherson |first1=Errol |title=The Lively Lady Townshend and her Friends |date=1926 |publisher=William Heinemann Ltd |location=London |page=178}}</ref>{{sfn|Verberckmoes |2007|p= 77}} Long-connected  with the [[Blue Stockings Society]], Walpole played host to its members and associates at Strawberry Hill, including [[Anna Laetitia Barbauld]] in 1774.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walpole |first1=Horace |editor1-last=Cunningham |editor1-first=P. |title=The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford |date=1891 |publisher=Richard Bentley and Son, London | series=The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford | volume=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brU_AAAAYAAJ&dq=horace+walpole+blue+stockings+strawberry+hill&pg=PR20 |access-date=4 June 2023 |quote=To The Countess of Ossory –  July 15, 1783...I have  given one or two dinners to blue-stockings...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=G. |title=Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture... |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=71 |isbn=9780521026093 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_FhPV1zaccoC&dq=barbould+Horace++had+been+pleased+in+1774&pg=PA71 |access-date=10 June 2023|quote=...of a new literary and personal identity for Anna Barbauld. Horace Walpole had been pleased, in 1774, to show Anna and [her husband] Rochemont around Strawberry Hill, and a few years later to praise her poetry in a letter to William Mason.}}</ref>