Rictor Norton

Standard Name: Norton, Rictor

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Ann Radcliffe
Her biographer Rictor Norton believes that the Whig strain in her thinking has been seriously underestimated.
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Radcliffe
Critic Margaret Doody identifies Emily's poem The Sea-Nymph as a response to Anna Seward 's Song of the Fairies to the Sea-nymphs, while Rictor Norton notes that the incident in which Emily hears gondoliers...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Radcliffe
Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
Literary responses 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.
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Literary responses Regina Maria Roche
The Critical Review was reminded unpleasantly of Ann Radcliffe (from whom, indeed, says Rictor Norton in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, passages are lifted without acknowledgement).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Critical summed up this novel as...
Literary responses Regina Maria Roche
Rictor Norton singles this out for mention among RMR 's five Irish regional novels for its handling of Irish topics: absenteeism, religious freedom, and Irish national pride.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Literary responses Regina Maria Roche
George Saintsbury wrote in 1913, remembering RMR 's once great popularity, that her books were best read, as they were for generations, in late childhood or early youth. Even then an intelligent boy or girl...
politics Ann Radcliffe
AR 's vicarious connection with the radical Gazetteer (a paper which supported the French Revolution throughout her husband's editorship, 1791-2) is presumably some pointer towards her own political opinions. A recent biographer, Rictor Norton ...
Textual Features Regina Maria Roche
Rictor Norton in the ODNB calls this a sentimental tale with Gothic elements.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
AR 's Poems were published without her knowledge or consent.
Her biographer Rictor Norton believes, however, that her husband may have consented.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR had left a number of manuscripts ready for print.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
247
She probably wrote most of the novel Gaston de Blondeville in winter 1802-3. Late...
Travel Ann Radcliffe
AR 's biographer Rictor Norton hypothesizes that she may have spent most of her time over a period of years at Chelsea (and afterwards, from summer 1777, at Bentley's next home, further out from London...

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Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.