Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
221-2
Nathan Drake
called Radcliffe the Shakespeare
of Romance Writers...
Literary responses
Eliza Haywood
Nathan Drake
praised this magazine in 1810 for its curious anecdotes, and especially for the discussion in number 8 of satire and panegyric. Today Christine Blouch
thinks particularly highly of it.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
