See also:

• ANN

ANN See also:

• RADCLIFFE
• ANN RADCLIFFE (1764-1823)
• RADCLIFFE, JOHN (1650-1714)
• RADCLIFFE, SIR GEORGE (1593-1657)

RADCLIFFE (1764-1823)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English novelist, only daughter of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William and See also:

• ANN

Ann See also:

• WARD
• WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
• WARD, ARTEMUS
• WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
• WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
• WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
• WARD, JAMES (1843– )
• WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
• WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
• WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
• WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
• WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)

Ward, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 9th of See also:

• JULY

July 1764 . She was the author of three famous novels: The See also:

• ROMANCE

Romance of the See also:

• FOREST

Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian (1797) . When she was twenty-three years old she married William See also:

• RADCLIFFE
• RADCLIFFE, ANN (1764-1823)
• RADCLIFFE, JOHN (1650-1714)
• RADCLIFFE, SIR GEORGE (1593-1657)

Radcliffe, an See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford See also:

• GRADUATE (Med. Lat. graduale, to admit to an academical degree, gradus)

graduate and student of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . He gave up his profession for literature, and afterwards became proprietor and editor of the English See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle . After The Italian she gave up See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

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

part was dislike of public See also:

• NOTICE

notice . Of scenery Mrs Radcliffe was an enthusiastic admirer, and she made See also:

• DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving See also:

• TOURS

tours with her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband every other summer through the English counties . She died on the 7th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1823 . In the See also:

• HISTORY

history of the English novel, Mrs Radcliffe holds an interesting See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . She is too often confounded with her imitators, who vulgarized her favourite " properties " of rambling and ruinous old castles, dark, desperate and cadaverous villains, See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret passages, vaults, trapdoors, evidences of deeds of monstrous See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime, See also:

• SIGHTS

sights and sounds of mysterious horror . She deserves at least the See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

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
• PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

plot, fertility of incident or skill in devising apparently supernatural occurrences capable of explanation by human agency and natural coincidence . She had a genuine See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift for scenic effect, and her vivid See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination provided every tragic situation in her stories with its appropriate setting . See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

Walter See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott wrote an appreciative See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay for the edition of 1824, and See also:

• MISS

Miss See also:

• CHRISTINA (1626–1689)
• CHRISTINA [MARIA CHRISTINA HENRIETTA DESIREE FELICITE RENIERE]

Christina See also:

• ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA (1830-1894)
• ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)

Rossetti was one of her admirers .

She exercised a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on her contemporaries, and " Schedoni " in The Italian is one of the prototypes of the Byronic See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero .