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His society bemusedly tolerated most eccentrics — even nouveau riche ones — but they chose to ostracize this remarkable personality, dubbing him "The Fool of Fonthill." Beckford's father, twice Lord Mayor of London, was the richest man in England, with extensive holdings in the cloth industry, property, government bonds, and sugar plantations.
WILLIAM BECKFORD(1760 - 1844)(Also wrote under the pseudonyms Lady Harnet Marlow and Jacquetta Agneta Manana Jenks) English novelist and travel writer.Beckford is primarily remembered for his novel Vathek (1787), which has been consistently hailed as a seminal contribution to the genre of oriental romance, and less consistently as part of the Gothic tradition.
The William Beckford Collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, and printed material relating to the life and career of William Beckford (1760-1844) and the Beckford family. Beckford is best known as the author of the Oriental fantasy Vathek, a collector of fine books and art, and the builder of impressive homes at Fonthill-Gifford ...
贝克福德(Beckford, William)(1760.9.29, 英格兰 伦敦～1844.5.2, 萨默塞特 巴斯) 英国 艺术爱好者、小说家和怪人。以哥特式小说《瓦提克》(Vathek, 1786)出名，写的是一个不敬神的酒色之徒，他修建了一座高塔，向天堂里的穆罕默德挑战，但跌入了黑暗王子的王国；尽管情节写得很不平均，但故事极具创造性和 ...
William Beckford: A Bibliography provides an annotated listing of all known publications of his works, with many contemporary reviews. His novel Vathek, has been published in some 165 editions in twenty languages since the first unauthorised edition of 1786.. The volume lists printed works relating to his life and achievements, and scholarly writing about Beckford, as well as tracing his ...
William Thomas Beckford, né le 1er octobre 1760 à Fonthill, Wiltshire et mort le 2 mai 1844 à Bath, était un critique d'art, homme politique et écrivain anglais. Né dans le manoir possédé par son père, maire de Londres, William Thomas Beckford hérita de lui à l'âge de dix ans une fortune colossale, estimée à 1 million de livres ...
His parents were William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton. He was Member of Parliament for Wells from 1784 to 1790, for Hindon from 1790 to 1795 and 1806 to 1820. He is remembered as the author of the Gothic novel Vathek (1786), the builder of the remarkable lost Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower ("Beckford's Tower"), Bath, and especially for his art collection.
