Etheldreda Townshend
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Audrey Etheldreda Townshend, Viscountess Townshend, was a celebrated English socialite, widely believed to have inspired the character "Lady Bellaston", the notorious fictional seductress in Henry Fie
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste van Loo (c. 1738)
Balls Park where Etheldreda Harrison was born in 1708, which she left to her grandson Lord John Townshend, including a large sum of money to completely refurbish it
Copy of a miniature of "My Lady Townshend" belonging to Horace Walpole, after Zincke
Horace Walpole
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
Etheldreda Townshend
…and macaroni of the day, like Casanova and Chevalier d'Éon. A celebrated wit of her day, Lady Townshend frequently jousted with her closest friends Horace Walpole, George Montagu and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and George Selwyn, in the golden age of satire in England, as well as more serious commentators like…
Portrait of Horace Walpole by Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Walpole by Rosalba Carriera, c. 1741.
Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham
Horace Walpole by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1755.