Clara Reeve

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Standard Name: Reeve, Clara
Birth Name: Clara Reeve
Pseudonym: C. R.
Pseudonym: C. R--ve
CR , late-eighteenth-century novelist, wrote both gothic and contemporary novels (the first being her best known), as well as poetry and a pioneer work of serious criticism about the novel form. At the end of her life she reckoned her published output at twenty-one volumes, not counting pamphlets.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Oval portrait of Clara Reeve, drawn by A. H. Tourrier, etched by Dammam. She is seen from the waist up, arms folded, standing beside a plant in a tall pot. She is wearing a simple striped dress with darker cloth crossed over her chest, a printed shawl around her shoulders, and a white cap her head. Her name is written beneath.

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Textual Features Ann Radcliffe
Again AR 's influences are Walpole and Reeve .
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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Such elements as the heroine's unconsciously offering herself to the male gaze, revealing intimate physical charms as she lies asleep, probably do not stem directly...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's...
Textual Production Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The next work by Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later Baroness Lytton) was a novel or fictional biography: The School for Husbands; or, Molière 's Life and Times.
The title is multiply allusive. Molière's comedy L'école...
Textual Production Judith Man
The title-page says she translated from the French: that is, from Nicolas Coeffeteau 's shortened version of the Argenis. She must have translated quickly (following Coeffeteau closely), since she says she read him around...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth : She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM
Textual Production Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The title suggests some relation to Clara Reeve 's The Old English Baron, first published under that title in 1778.
Textual Production Eliza Parsons
She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....

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