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William Thomas Beckford (1 de Outubro de 1760 - 2 de Maio de 1844), mais conhecido apenas por William Beckford, foi um aristocrata inglês, romancista, autor de Vathek , crítico de arte, escritor de viagens e político inglês. Foi perseguido nos últimos anos da sua vida devido à sua homossexualidade. [carece de fontes?]
William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner . The son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton , he served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and ...
William Beckford was an eccentric English dilettante, author of the Gothic novel Vathek (1786). Such writers as George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Stéphane Mallarmé acknowledged his genius. He also is renowned for having built Fonthill Abbey, the most sensational building of the English Gothic Revival.
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William Thomas Beckford (* Fonthill, Wiltshire, 1 de octubre de 1760 - †2 de mayo de 1844) fue un novelista inglés, crítico de arte, escritor de crónicas de viajes y político.
A biography of William Beckford, the wealthy and scandalous eighteenth-century Englishman who built Fonthill Abbey, wrote The History of the Caliph Vathek, and had a lifelong affair with a young lord. Learn about his exotic travels, his Oriental-Gothic novel, his homosexuality, and his ostracism.
18 de ago. de 2009 · William Beckford: cartas portuguesas. Entre os múltiplos escritores ingleses que escreveram sobre Portugal destaca-se WILLIAM BECKFORD (1760-1844) pela qualidade literária das narrativas e pelo valor cultural das suas descrições da sociedade portuguesa durante o reinado de D. Maria I.
William Beckford, (born Sept. 29, 1760, London, Eng.—died May 2, 1844, Bath, Somerset), English dilettante, novelist, and eccentric.
