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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
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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.
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| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | On the strength of this novel the Critical Review hailed CS
as less agitating than Ann Radcliffe
, less diverting than Frances Burney
, but more true to nature than either. In the Monthly... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Green | A review in La Belle Assemblée called this a Radcliffean
imitation which its author need not be ashamed of. Green, Sarah. “Introduction: Romantic Reading and Writing: The Creation and Consumption of the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel; A Note on the Text”. Romance Readers and Romance Writers, edited by Christopher Goulding, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. ix - xxii, xxix-xxxi. x |
| Literary responses | Eleanor Sleath | The Critical Review observed crushingly that vapid and servile imitations like this one were a severe penance for critics who had been seduced by Ann Radcliffe
into admiration for the modern romance. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 761 |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 24 (1798): 1-22 |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | Reviewers were anything but indifferent. The New Monthly Magazine thought the title character ably and vigorously drawn and the book therefore a moral one: a fearful beacon to warn the young and inexperienced. But the... |
| Occupation | Sophia Lee | In 1795 SL
subscribed, as Miss Lee of Belvedere and clearly for the use of the school, to James Marshall's Library
of Bath, a circulating library with a comparatively small proportion of fiction in its... |
| Publishing | Regina Maria Roche | The usual US and Irish editions followed, plus a French translation. Valancourt Books
of Chicago (a Gothic reprint house named after the hero of Ann Radcliffe
's The Mysteries of Udolpho) has recently re-issued this novel. |
| Publishing | Catherine Cuthbertson | It came out in four volumes from Robinson
, but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804. Mayo, Robert. The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. Northwestern University Press, 1962. 232 |
| Reception | Helen Craik | Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32. 213 |
| Reception | 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. 207 |
| Reception | Susan Ferrier | SF
's protagonists were included with those of Jane Austen
, Frances Burney
, Amelia Opie
, Ann Radcliffe
and others in W. D. Howells
's Heroines of Fiction, 1901. |
| Textual Features | 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, 1816, 2 vols. 1: 5 Lady Anne died at Brougham, one of the best-loved... |
| Textual Features | Jane West | |
| Textual Features | 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 |
| Textual Features | Eliza Parsons | The story is set in Germany (which at this date was seen in England as the land of romance) qtd. in Hoeveler, Diane Long, and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. The Castle of Wolfenbach, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Diane Long Hoeveler, Valancourt Books, 2007, p. vii - xvii. x |
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