Lewis Walpole Library Lecture | The Many Lives of Horace Walpole

George E. Haggerty, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of California, Riverside In his charming biography of Horace Walpole, R. W. Ketton Cremer makes the point that “one of the difficulties which confront a biographer of Walpole is his remarkable versatility. He was active in many fields—in politics, social life, literature, architecture, antiquarianism, printing, virtú; and it is not easy to include them all in the compass of a single volume.” George Haggerty, who is currently writing a new biography of Horace Walpole, will take up this challenge in his lecture with and through Walpole’s letters. Haggerty asserts that Walpole writes himself into his experience by means of his epistolary imagination. Location: Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall 1080 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06510 Image credit: Joseph Constantine Stadler, “The Gallery at Strawberry Hill,“ aquatint on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection