Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist and a pioneer of Gothic fiction. Her technique of explaining apparently...
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(1796) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (although she would go...
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Mary Ann Radcliffe (1746 – 1818) was an important British figure in the early feminist movement. She was born Mary Ann Clayton in Nottingham, the elder...
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She is remembered today in the name of Radcliffe College. Ann Radcliffe was the daughter of Anthony Radcliffe of London (died 1603) and Elizabeth Bright...
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Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English actor. He rose to fame at age 12 when he began portraying Harry Potter in the film series of...
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Story". Subsequent 18th-century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued...
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William Blake, Lord Byron, John Constable, John Keats, John Nash, Ann Radcliffe, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, J. M. W. Turner and...
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The Romance of the Forest (category Novels by Ann Radcliffe)
The Romance of the Forest is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe that was first published in 1791. It combines an air of mystery and suspense with an examination...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho (category Novels by Ann Radcliffe)
The Mysteries of Udolpho is a Romance novel by Ann Radcliffe, which appeared in four volumes on 8 May 1794 from G. G. and J. Robinson of London. Her fourth...
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A Sicilian Romance (category Novels by Ann Radcliffe)
A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns...
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Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard...
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between terror and horror was first characterized by the Gothic writer Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), horror being more related to being shocked or scared (being...
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novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance". M. H. Abrams and...
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and Art wrote that Dracula improved upon the style of Gothic pioneer Ann Radcliffe. Another anonymous writer described Stoker as "the Edgar Allan Poe of...
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Romance (1790), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), The Italian (1796) by Ann Radcliffe, and The Monk (1797) by Matthew Lewis. A significant amount of horror...
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Anne (redirect from Ann (name))
journalist Ann Putnam Jr. (1679–1716), witness at the Salem Witch Trials Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), English author and pioneer of the Gothic subgenre Ann Reinking...
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Radcliffe is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Alex Radcliffe (1905–1983), US baseball player Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), English novelist...
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with Ann Radcliffe, whose works were highly anticipated and widely imitated. She has been called both "the Great Enchantress" and "Mother Radcliffe" due...
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quickly becomes friends with Catherine. Isabelle introduces Catherine to Ann Radcliffe's 1794 Gothic novel Mysteries of Udolpho. Mrs. Thorpe's son, John, is...
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Westmoreland, and Cumberland is a travel narrative by Ann Radcliffe first published in 1795. Radcliffe at that time was the famous and successful author of...
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later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker,...
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there, where it demands that he make a female creature for him. In Ann Radcliffe's 1791 gothic novel The Romance of the Forest, the heroine visits the...
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both philosophy and literature that manages to include Schopenhauer, Ann Radcliffe, Thomas De Quincey, H.P. Lovecraft, and Poe. This is no simple ornamental...
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aristocrat William Beckford's Vathek (1787), and peaked with the works of Ann Radcliffe (1791-1797). After a few spurts with The Monk by Lewis (1796), it has...
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Jane Austen (redirect from Mrs. Ann Cawley)
sentimentalists and romantics such as Walter Scott, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, and Oliver Goldsmith, whose style and genre Austen repudiated, returning...
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The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (category Novels by Ann Radcliffe)
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, first published in London by Thomas Hookham in 1789. In her introduction to the...
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is often discussed in conjunction with that of Ann Radcliffe's. Robert Miles writes that "Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis were the two most significant...
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children by Robert Radcliffe included Ann Radcliffe and Elizabeth Radcliffe. In his will, written in 1496, Robert Radcliffe bequeathed Ann four gold rings...
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Marquis de Sade and Tales in a Jugular Vein. 1966 saw Bloch win the Ann Radcliffe Award for Television and publisher yet another collection of shorts...
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is considered a minor Gothic novelist, encouraged by the pioneering Ann Radcliffe. However, she was a bestselling author in her own time. The popularity...
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