Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Cultural formation | Ann Radcliffe | Her biographer Rictor Norton
believes that the Whig strain in her thinking has been seriously underestimated. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Critic Margaret Doody
identifies Emily's poem The Sea-Nymph as a response to Anna Seward
's Song of the Fairies to the Sea-nymphs, while Rictor Norton
notes that the incident in which Emily hears gondoliers... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 67 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | Rictor Norton
says that this text is derivative from Ann Radcliffe
's A Sicilian Romance. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 207 |
Literary responses | Regina Maria Roche | The Critical Review was reminded unpleasantly of Ann Radcliffe
(from whom, indeed, says Rictor Norton
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, passages are lifted without acknowledgement). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Regina Maria Roche | Rictor Norton
singles this out for mention among RMR
's five Irish regional novels for its handling of Irish topics: absenteeism, religious freedom, and Irish national pride. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Regina Maria Roche | George Saintsbury
wrote in 1913, remembering RMR
's once great popularity, that her books were best read, as they were for generations, in late childhood or early youth. Even then an intelligent boy or girl... |
politics | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's vicarious connection with the radical Gazetteer (a paper which supported the French Revolution throughout her husband's editorship, 1791-2) is presumably some pointer towards her own political opinions. A recent biographer, Rictor Norton
... |
Textual Features | Regina Maria Roche | Rictor Norton
in the ODNB calls this a sentimental tale with Gothic elements. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR
had left a number of manuscripts ready for print. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 247 |
Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's Poems were published without her knowledge or consent. Her biographer Rictor Norton
believes, however, that her husband may have consented. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 232-3 |
Travel | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's biographer Rictor Norton
hypothesizes that she may have spent most of her time over a period of years at Chelsea (and afterwards, from summer 1777, at Bentley's next home, further out from London... |
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