Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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Eliza Parsons
The story is set in Germany (which at this date was seen in England as the land of romance)
Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, p. vii - xvii.
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and the heroine, Matilda Weimar, appears to be German, though she turns out to...
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Jane Harvey
This too begins like a guidebook. JH
quotes Ann Radcliffe
, and mentions the celebrated Lady Anne Clifford
, the castle's best-known owner.
Harvey, Jane. Brougham Castle. A. K. Newman.
1: 5
Lady Anne died at Brougham, one of the best-loved...
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Jane West
JW
uses heroic couplets for formal poems like To the Island of Sicily (on the retreat of the king and queen of the Two Sicilies before the French Army of Italy, commanded by Napoleon
...
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Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ
used the Athenæum to express her opinions on women's writing. A review of Anna Maria Hall
's Sketches of Irish Character criticizes the author's erroneous ambition
Athenæum. J. Lection.
182 (1831): 262
in attempting to portray villains...
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Mary Julia Young
MJY
foregrounds her own friendship with Anna Maria Crouch, and finds room for such details as the opinions of Crouch's father, Peregrine Phillips
, about novelists: he admired Charlotte Smith
, Anna Maria Bennett
,...
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Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
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Joanna Southcott
Having had her attention drawn to Ann Radcliffe
's The Romance of the Forest, JS
wrote (or received as dictated by the Spirit) a lengthy prose-and-verse commentary.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB
's letters to Sarah Ponsonby
reveal the closeness of their friendship. She sent information, opinion, and verse, some of it probably written by herself. Among books she discussed were Ann Radcliffe
's The Mysteries...
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages.
It was the herculean school project of putting on a dramatic adaptation of Ann Radcliffe
's Udolpho that first give RT
(who thought of herself at the time as a visual artist like her sister)...
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Mary Ann Radcliffe
At the time of its appearance, MAR
was not yet a published author. At the time of its ascription to her, she had published in defence in women, while Ann Radcliffe
had completed her whole...
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Mary Ann Radcliffe
Again she was a published author by the time of the ascription, but not at the time of the publication, and only of material quite unlike this highly-coloured fiction. Contemporary comment on both these novels...
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
As Miss Wilkinson, SSW
published Convent of Grey Penitents; or, The Apostate Nun. A Romance.
The sub-title had appeared already the previous year on a chapbook entitled The Mysterious Novice; or, Convent of...
