Ann Radcliffe - (1764 - 1823)
(Born Ann Ward) English novelist, poet, and journal writer.
Considered one of the most important writers of the English Gothic tradition, Radcliffe transformed the Gothic...
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In 1883, baffled by an almost complete lack of information about one of her favorite romance writers, the poet Christina Rossetti abandoned her projected biography of Ann Radcliffe. "Someone else, I d...
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One of the most popular novelists of her era, Ann Ward Radcliffe created a female Gothic that transformed the emotional extravagances of the classic male Gothic novel, pioneered by Horace Walpole's Th...
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In this essay, Murrah discusses how Radcliffe's reflective verbal pictures found in her published Journey serve as an introduction to her use of imaginative description of nature in her fiction...
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In the following essay Chard introduces the general features of this early work of Radcliffe's. In addition to discussing the novel's genre, immediate critical reception, and place in li...
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In the following excerpt, Ellis suggests that in her Gothic novels Radcliffe elevates the character of romance by using the fanciful conventions of the Gothic tradition as a means of addressing the re...
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In the following excerpt, Todd provides a detailed overview of Radcliffe's novels and discusses the traits that distinguish her from both her eighteenth-century predecessors, such as Samuel Ric...
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In the following excerpt, Spacks argues that Radcliffe bases the structure of her fiction on the "moral implications of [Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime."]
In Radcliffe&#x...
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In the following essay, Michasiw discusses the ways in which individual characters in Radcliffe's novels struggle with other characters and with the political and social institutions that defin...
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Ann Radcliffe - (1764 - 1823)
Ann (Ward) Radcliffe
Critical Essay by Charles C. Murrah
