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See also: English novelist, only daughter of See also: William and
See also: Ann See also: Ward, was
See also: born in See also: London on the 9th of See also: July 1764
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She was the author of three famous novels: The See also: Romance of the See also: Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The See also: Italian (1797)
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When she was twenty-three years old she married William See also: Radcliffe, an See also: Oxford graduate and student of See also: law
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He gave up his profession for literature, and afterwards became proprietor and editor of the English See also: Chronicle
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After The Italian she gave up writing for publication, and was reported to have been driven mad
by the horrors of her own creations, but the nearest approach to eccentricity on Mrs Radcliffe's See also: part was dislike of public See also: notice
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Of scenery Mrs Radcliffe was an enthusiastic admirer, and she made driving See also: tours with her See also: husband every other summer through the English counties
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She died on the 7th of See also: February 1823
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In the See also: history of the English novel, Mrs Radcliffe holds an interesting place
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She is too often confounded with her imitators, who vulgarized her favourite " properties " of rambling and ruinous old castles, dark, desperate and cadaverous villains, secret passages, vaults, trapdoors, evidences of deeds of monstrous See also: crime, See also: sights and sounds of mysterious horror
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She deserves at least the See also: credit of originating a school of which she was the most distinguished exponent; and none of her numerous imitators approach her in ingenuity of See also: plot, fertility of incident or skill in devising apparently supernatural occurrences capable of explanation by human agency and natural coincidence
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She had a genuine gift for scenic effect, and her vivid See also: imagination provided every tragic situation in her stories with its appropriate setting
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See also: Sir Walter See also: Scott wrote an appreciative essay for the edition of 1824, and See also: Miss Christina Rossetti was one of her admirers
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She exercised a See also: great influence on her contemporaries, and " Schedoni " in The Italian is one of the prototypes of the Byronic See also: hero
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