What is Strawberry Hill ?
Correct answer: D. The inspiration for "The Castle of Otranto"
- A. The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe
- B. The ancestral home of HoraceWalpole
- C. One of the settings in "The Mysteries of Udolpho"
- D. The inspiration for "The Castle of Otranto"
Explanation
Strawberry Hill was Horace Walpole’s Gothic revival villa and helped inspire the medieval setting and architectural atmosphere of The Castle of Otranto. It was not an ancestral Radcliffe residence or a setting in Udolpho.
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