Properties (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
person
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| gptkbp:associatedWith |
Gothic literature
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| gptkbp:birthDate |
1760-10-29
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| gptkbp:child |
gptkb:William_Beckford
|
| gptkbp:deathDate |
1844-05-02
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| gptkbp:founded |
gptkb:Beckford_Tower
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| gptkbp:genre |
Gothic fiction
travel literature |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
William Thomas Beckford
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| gptkbp:influenced |
gptkb:M.R._James
gptkb:Charles_Dickens gptkb:H.P._Lovecraft |
| gptkbp:influencedBy |
gptkb:Edmund_Burke
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| gptkbp:knownFor |
his wealth
his eccentric lifestyle |
| gptkbp:nationality |
British
|
| gptkbp:notableEvent |
was a patron of the arts
became a wealthy sugar planter was a collector of art wrote travel accounts became_a_member_of_Parliament built_Fonthill_Abbey published_Vathek_in_1786 visited_France visited_Italy visited_Jamaica was_a_friend_of_Alfred_Lord_Tennyson was_a_friend_of_Ali_Smith was_a_friend_of_Arnold_Bennett was_a_friend_of_Benjamin_Disraeli was_a_friend_of_Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti was_a_friend_of_David_Mitchell was_a_friend_of_Derek_Walcott was_a_friend_of_E.M._Forster was_a_friend_of_Edward_Bulwer-Lytton was_a_friend_of_Edward_Burne-Jones was_a_friend_of_George_Gordon_Byron was_a_friend_of_Henry_James was_a_friend_of_Hilary_Mantel was_a_friend_of_Ian_McEwan was_a_friend_of_Jeanette_Winterson was_a_friend_of_John_Keats was_a_friend_of_John_Ruskin was_a_friend_of_Julian_Barnes was_a_friend_of_Kazuo_Ishiguro was_a_friend_of_Lord_Byron was_a_friend_of_Oscar_Wilde was_a_friend_of_Philip_Larkin was_a_friend_of_Salman_Rushdie was_a_friend_of_Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge was_a_friend_of_Sarah_Waters was_a_friend_of_Seamus_Heaney was_a_friend_of_Sir_Walter_Scott was_a_friend_of_Stephen_Spender was_a_friend_of_T.S._Eliot was_a_friend_of_Ted_Hughes was_a_friend_of_Thomas_De_Quincey was_a_friend_of_Thomas_Hardy was_a_friend_of_Virginia_Woolf was_a_friend_of_W.H._Auden was_a_friend_of_William_Wordsworth was_a_friend_of_Zadie_Smith |
| gptkbp:notableWork |
Vathek
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| gptkbp:occupation |
politician
writer |
| gptkbp:placeOfBirth |
gptkb:London
|
| gptkbp:placeOfDeath |
Bath
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| gptkbp:residence |
gptkb:Fonthill_Abbey
|
| gptkbp:spouse |
Margaret_Beckford
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