The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth
and Mary
, and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Green
This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid
's description of chaos. SG
slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...
Timeline
26 April 1798: Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell, A German...
Writing climate item
26 April 1798
Francis Lathom
's The Midnight Bell, A German Story, one of the gothic horrid novels mentioned in Jane Austen
's Northanger Abbey, was advertised as newly published.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
