Strawberry Hill circle

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Strawberry Hill circle was an 18th-century literary and artistic coterie centered around Horace Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill, known for its influence on early Gothic fiction and antiquarian culture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 18th-century cultural group
artistic coterie
literary circle
associatedWithGenre Gothic literature
Gothic novel
associatedWithMovement Gothic Revival
antiquarianism
picturesque movement
associatedWithWork The Castle of Otranto
centeredAround Horace Walpole
country Kingdom of Great Britain
floruit c. 1750–1790s
hasActivity Gothic revival design
antiquarian research
art collecting
epistolary writing
historical writing
literary discussion
manuscript collecting
hasCentralFigure Horace Walpole
hasMainLocation England
County of Middlesex
surface form: Middlesex

Thames Valley
Twickenham
hasMember Anne Seymour Damer
George Montagu
George Selwyn
Henry Seymour Conway
Horace Mann
Horace Walpole
John Chute
Richard Bentley
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Gray
Thomas Warton
Thomas Whately
William Cole
William Mason
William Warburton
inception c. 1750s
mid-18th century
influenced Gothic Revival architecture
Romanticism
antiquarian culture
early Gothic fiction
historical novel
language English
locatedIn Strawberry Hill House
namedAfter Strawberry Hill House
surface form: Strawberry Hill
socialClass British aristocracy
British aristocracy
surface form: British gentry

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The Mysterious Mother associatedWithAuthor Strawberry Hill circle