Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
| Literary responses | Marie de France | Having been influential for a couple of centuries after her period of activity, MF re-entered modern literary consciousness with a late-eighteenth-century critical work by Gervais de La Rue
, translated into English under the auspices... |
| Occupation | Ann Bridge | During her time in ScotlandAB
made archaeological excavations and quite important discoveries of vitrified forts. As a result of this work she was invited to become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Strutt | The story's omniscient narrator offers historical explanations as the tale proceeds (noting, for instance, that women's status, unlike women's education, has not improved since the fourteenth century). ES
says she hopes to encourage her readers... |
| Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | The work she refers to as her source is Gervais de La Rue
's Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Mary, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the 13th century, translated into English under the... |
| Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR
had left a number of manuscripts ready for print. |
Timeline
1718: The Society of Antiquaries, founded in 1572...
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1718
The Society of Antiquaries
, founded in 1572 but lapsed, was refounded and endured.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Baines, Paul. “’Our Annius’: Antiquaries and Fraud in the Eighteenth Century”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-51. 36
9 September 1844: The inaugural meeting of the British Archaeological...
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9 September 1844
The inaugural meeting of the British Archaeological Association
was held at Canterbury; it lasted for a highly successful week, and attracted two or three hundred delegates of both sexes.
Planché, James Robinson. The Recollections and Reflections of J.R. Planché. Tinsley Brothers, 1872, 2 vols.
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