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Ann Radcliffe ( July 9, 1764 - February 7, 1823) was an English author, a pioneer of the gothic novel.
She was born Ann Ward in Holborn, London, England. She married William Radcliffe, an editor for the English Chronicle , at Bath in 1788. To amuse herself, she began to write fiction, an avocation her husband encouraged.
She published The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne in 1789. This set the tone for the majority of her work, which tended to involve innocent, but heroic young women who find themselves in gloomy, mysterious castles ruled by even more mysterious barons with dark pasts.
Her works were extremely popular, especially with respectably sheltered young women who were starved for something a bit more exciting than needlepoint. Her works included The Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and The Italian (1796).
The success of The Romance of the Forest established Radcliffe as the leading exponent of the historical Gothic romance. Her later novels met with even greater attention, and produced many imitators, and famously, Jane Austen's burlesque of The Mysteries of Udolpho in Northanger AbbeyNorthanger Abbey was the first of Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice''. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) 'was w, as well as influencing the works of Sir Walter Scott and Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft ( April 27, 1759 September 10, 1797) was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Her husband William Godwin was one of the most prominent atheists of his day and a forefather of the.
She died on February 7, 1823 from respiratory problems probably caused by pneumoniaPneumonia is defined as an infection involving the alveoli of the lungs. It occurs in patients of all age groups, but young children and the elderly, as well as immunocompromised and immune deficient patients, are especially at risk. Causal therapy is wit.
Radcliffe's influence on later writers:
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