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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Meeke | The notice in the Critical Review betrayed impatience with this novel: it was particularly displeased with the proliferation of dukes and duchesses, marquisses and marchionesses, the bad grammar, and the libellous view of the abodes... |
| Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical made a basic misjudgement of The Abbey of St. Asaph (seemingly paying more attention to title than to content): it listed all the appurtenances of the Radcliffe
an novel, with which it said... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Dacre | Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning... |
| Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | This novel was praised by the British Critic as entitled to no mean place among the better productions of this description. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | On the strength of this novel the Critical Review hailed CS
as less agitating than Ann Radcliffe
, less diverting than Frances Burney
, but more true to nature than either. In the Monthly... |
| Occupation | Sophia Lee | In 1795 SL
subscribed, as Miss Lee of Belvedere and clearly for the use of the school, to James Marshall's Library
of Bath, a circulating library with a comparatively small proportion of fiction in its... |
| Publishing | Regina Maria Roche | The usual US and Irish editions followed, plus a French translation. Valancourt Books
of Chicago (a Gothic reprint house named after the hero of Ann Radcliffe
's The Mysteries of Udolpho) has recently re-issued this novel. |
| Publishing | Catherine Cuthbertson | It came out in four volumes from Robinson
, but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804. Mayo, Robert. The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. Northwestern University Press, 1962. 232 |
| Reception | Susan Ferrier | SF
's protagonists were included with those of Jane Austen
, Frances Burney
, Amelia Opie
, Ann Radcliffe
and others in W. D. Howells
's Heroines of Fiction, 1901. |
| Reception | 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 |
| Reception | Helen Craik | Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32. 213 |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | |
| Textual Features | Sarah Murray | Murray then divides her volume into three parts: A Guide to the Lakes . . . and . . . the West Riding of Yorkshire, A Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, and... |
| Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney
, then Radcliffe
, then Owenson
, then Rosa Matilda |
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