The Castle of Otranto: 250th Anniversary Lecture
Christmas Eve 2014 sees the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Castle of Otranto, a story written, Walpole declared, ‘in spite of rules, critics, and philosophers’, and which changed the course of prose fiction.
To celebrate Otranto’s 250th birthday, Michael Snodin, Chairman of the Strawberry Hill Trust, and Fiona Robertson, Horace Walpole Professor of English Literature at St Mary's University, invite you to a special anniversary lecture followed by drinks and canapes in the Gal
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Standard: £24
Strawberry Hill House, 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham, London TW1 4ST
Fri 19 Dec 2014