Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

and throughout time. My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Irene. And today we're talking about

The Man of Letters and writer Horace Walpole.

We don't actually have that many content warnings for this episode in a refreshing twist.

There's a little bit of homophobia, not only in Horace's time, but also in the scholarship.

There's some strong sexual content.

There's a bunch of sexually explicit letters and writings of Horace that we're going to look at.

But there's not actual like on-screen sex, and there's like a little bit of racism. But that's it. So if you don't

want to listen to any of that, feel free to check out one of other episodes instead. Normally,

at the start of one of these episodes, we start talking about their early life, what they were

like as a child and things like that.

And we're not going to do that today.

Instead, we're going to talk about things that happened after Horace's death

and talk about what the last hundred years or so of scholarship about him have been like.

Okay.

So it's a historiography episode?

No.

We're just doing this for the intersection.

Oh, I was doing this.

Okay, I see. I see. No. We're just doing this for the intersection. Oh, I was doing this. Okay, I see.

I see.

Yeah.

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