...Vol. XIX [19] (1765): 50-51. The ingenious translator of this very curious performance informs that it ["]was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England: that it was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529; and that the stile is of the...

...text as a foundling by making himself the recipient (and hence the philosophical object) of a copy: The following work was found in the library of an...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principle incidents are such as were believed in...

...novel The Castle of Otranto. The preface to the first edition of this text claimed that it had been found in 'the library of an ancient Catholic family in the North of England', and, relating events that had happened in 'the darkest ages of Christianity', possibly dated from that...

...conspicuous example, when Horace Walpole first issued The Castle of Otranto, he described it as a manuscript "found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England" (more residual Jacobitism) and dating from an indeterminate past, sometime between the first and last...

...heteronormativity of sexual violence and the patriarchal law of the father upon which Catholicism insists. "The following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family," Walpole writes in the preface to the first edition of the novel, and "the principal incidents are such...

...anonymously by Walpole at Strawberry Hill on Christmas Eve, 1764, says that its printed text had been 'found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England', and 'William Marshal, Gent.' appears on the title page as its translator 'From the original ITALIAN/...

...Gothic Story - was complete. When he published it the following year, Walpole pretended that it had been found 'in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England', having originally been printed in Naples in 1529. In the preface he also speculated that it had been...

...as his fiction, but as a certain William Marshall's translation of a sixteenth-century Italian book "found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England." It speculates that the author of this romance was a crafty priest, 54 who - anticipating that the power...

...first sentence in the preface to the first edition says that the story comes from a black-letter book found in the library of an 'ancient catholic family in the north of England'. 38 But Walpole's real ambivalence towards Catholicism is nowhere better demonstrated than in his use...

...Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1765) Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto Preface to the first edition The following work was found in the library of an...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in...