Our first field trip was to Horace Walpole's house in Twickenham, Strawberry Hill. He was pre-Victorian, but The Castle of Otranto is seen as the first Gothic novel and introduces so many of the tropes—secret passages, mysterious portraits, strange noises, stormy nights— that became commonplace in ghost stories afterwards that he does fit in with the theme of our class.
This is the reflection in an old mirror in the parlor that I think Walpole would find sufficently Gothic.
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