Ann Radcliffe

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Standard Name: Radcliffe, Ann
Birth Name: Ann Ward
Married Name: Ann Radcliffe
Pseudonym: The Author of A Sicilian Romance
Pseudonym: Adeline
AR is well known as the mistress par excellence of eighteenth-century Gothic fiction, the continuing tradition of which she strongly marked with the characteristics of her individual style. She also produced poetry, travel writing, and criticism. She apparently wrote for her own enjoyment, not because she needed the money, and after five novels in seven years she stopped publishing. She held aloof from the company of other literary people, and kept her private life from the public eye.

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Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Pearson
Several poems treat events in history: not only Henry II of England but also the Protestant Henri IV of France . The latter's victory over the Catholic League at the battle of Ivry in 1590...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Isabella Spence
She begins with Wales (whose countryside she praises but whose peasants she fairly sweepingly dismisses).
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
1: 24-5
Although her title-page does not name it, she returned to Wales on a later journey, and devotes a...
Intertextuality and Influence Cassandra Cooke
In a preface CC says she found the incident that forms the centre of this novel in The Christian Life by Dr John Scott (that is The Christian Life, from its beginning to its consummation...
Intertextuality and Influence Henry James
Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre have been cited as possible sources.
Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Robinson
It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young , Thomas Gray , and Edward Young , as well as...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Cuthbertson
The mode is that of Ann Radcliffe . The names of the characters are all Italian, though the French or Spanish setting implied by the title is reflected in the appearance in the text of...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
A minor character in this novel sums up rules of the gothic genre to which it belongs: a castle, a turret, a winding staircase, an assassin, a suicide, a spectre . . . ingredients enough...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs Martin
In ReginaldMM praises the work of Ann Radcliffe and takes her as a model (saying, however, that she does not aspire to rival her). Her story abounds in gothic motifs: convents, secret passages, banditti...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Damer
This is a novel strong in piety as well as in sentiment. Its title-page quotes from Ann Radcliffe . The heroine, Miss Lousia Riversdale, relates her story in journal letters to her brother Sir Harry...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Julia Young
Elinor's father is killed in defence of his daughter's honour.
Young, Mary Julia. The East Indian, or Clifford Priory. Earle and Hemet.
4: 189
She spends time unhappily at Clifford Priory with her skinflint uncle Sir Gervas, who goes to bed at nine, expects Elinor to eat...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Fay
Her range of reference runs from Pope on the one hand to, on the other, Ann Radcliffe and an anonymous answerer of Hannah More , the author of Nubilia in Search of a Husband.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, pp. 7-24.
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Intertextuality and Influence Jane Austen
Despite some later revision, Northanger Abbey is essentially (like its ancestor Susan) a novel of the 1790s, a spoof of both the gothic and romance modes which were then all the rage. Austen's specific...
Intertextuality and Influence Eleanor Sleath
It is set in a moated castle in seventeenth-century Gascony, with a dissipated Count who mistreats and imprisons his wife, banishes his wife's orphan nephew (the hero, Theodore), and has his niece Adelaide kidnapped...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Kennedy
MK found the inspiration for this novel in Jane Austen 's satire of gothic melodrama, Northanger Abbey. The tragic melodrama of this novel's love stories, however, brings it closer to the actual gothic tradition...
Intertextuality and Influence Sophia King
SK set her birth name to this novel, which she presumably arranged for before her wedding in July. The British Library has a copy, N 2048. SK provides a spirited preface on the part played...

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