![]() Strawberry Hill had its own printing press which supported Horace Walpole's intensive literary activity. This fanciful neo-Gothic concoction began a new architectural trend. His lasting architectural creation is Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London, in which he revived the Gothic style many decades before his Victorian successors. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of the 1st Viscount Nelson. Along with the book, his literary reputation rests on his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. Horatio Walpole (1717 –1797), was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician. ![]()
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