Brian Fothergill: 2 books
The Strawberry Hill Set
Horace Walpole and His Circle
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
To Horace Walpole's house at Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, came a remarkable assortment of poets and writers, artists and antiquaries, politicians and society figures. Among them were Thomas Gray, whose great 'Elegy' might never have been published without Walpole's encouragement; that 'laughter-loving...
by Brian Fothergill
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Nicholas Wiseman was not yet 26 years of age when he became rector of the English College in Rome. Pope Leo XII then made him curator of Arabic manuscripts in the Vatican, and professor of Oriental languages at the Roman University. But in 1840 this brilliant scholar returned to England, where he...