"Ann Radcliffe" Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ann_Radcliffe.jpg.
Ann Radcliffe
-
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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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, 1989. 682 |
| 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 | 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 | 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, 1809, 2 vols. 1: 24-5 |
| 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 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 | Charlotte Smith | The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS
a sister-queen qtd. in Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 141 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 548 |
| 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 | Eliza Parsons | This novel is part-epistolary (all the letters being in continuation from the Scottish Anna Sidney—who later becomes Lady Kilmorney—to her older friend Mrs Grenville), partly in dialogue, partly in the form of Anna's journal, and... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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, 1925, pp. 7-24. 10 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriett Mozley | Among the children, Fanny is a literature-addict, who fancies she would like to be a nun, because a nun is the most unfortunate and interesting creature in the world! . . . they all look... |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.