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- Ann
Radcliffe
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 Born:
9 July 1764; London- Only
child of William Ward & Ann Oates
Dissenting Unitarian background
- Good
non-classical education
- Passes
her youth in affluent congenial circumstances
- Marries
William Radcliffe at Bath - 1787
- 1st
book, The Castles of Athlyn & Dunbane - 1789
- Udolpho acclaimed
in England, America & Europe - 1794
- Writes
The Italian in reaction to Lewis' The Monk - 1796
- Holland
and Germany - 1794
- The
Journal of a Tour - 1795
- Admired
by Scott, Byron & Coleridge
- Father
dies - 1798
- Mother
dies - 1800
- Inherits
family property - 1800
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ceases to write for publication
Deteriorating mental health
Long-term bronchial infection
Dies: 7 February 1823; pneumonia
Buried in the Chapel of Ease, Bayswater Road
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- The
Romance of the Forest - 1791
The
Mysteries of Udolpho - 1794
The
Italian - 1797
Gaston
de Blondeville - 1826 (posthumous)
- Characteristic
of her manner is the peculiar ambivalence about reason and sensibility
that is mixed like a leaven through all the elements of her work and
radically affects its tone and temper. In an age that, publicly at
least, supported the bright light of intelligible universality, she
urged for the half-stated and the suggested as well as the overt,
for the dark and undefined in company with the clear and articulated.
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Frederick Garber
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- Paulo
was a true Neapolitan, shrewd, inquisitive, insinuating, adroit; possessing
much of the spirit of intrigue, together with a considerable portion
of humour, which displayed itself not so much in words, as in his
manner and countenance, in the archness of his dark, penetrating eye,
and in the exquisite adaption of his gesture to his idea.
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The
Italian
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