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Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Horace Walpole
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Today's episode is on Horace Walpole, 18th century man of letters and writer of the world's first gothic novel. This episode features a number of firsts for Queer As Fact, including our first possible asexual person, and the first Queer As Fact Historical Goth-Off!
(Image: Portrait of Horace Walpole by Pierre Subleyras, via Wikimedia Commons)
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6 years ago
Hi I love your podcast. Potentially helpful but entirely unnecessary comment about Horace's racist letter : during the 1700s much of India was ruled by the Mughal Empire which had heavy Persian cultural influences so that is probably why he used the terms fairly interchangeably.